The Bob Pritchard Radio Show Tuesday, April 25, 2017

April 25, 2017

Hosted by Bob Pritchard

Episode Description

The Bob Pritchard Radio Show

Tuesday at 5 PM Pacific Time on VoiceAmerica Business Channel

95 percent of all businesses fail within 10 years. Most small to medium businesses struggle to make wages. Bob Pritchard is a highly regarded expert with a track record of identifying the issues facing businesses and determining simple solutions to make them highly profitable.

Despite the glitz and glamor, Entertainment operates in the same way as any other business and as we live in a Celebrity obsessed society, people will enjoy this segment. Some of the best Business and marketing screw ups illustrate in a funny and impactful way some of the pitfalls that can be encountered in business, what went wrong and why.

Every business discipline from leadership to corporate culture, marketing to customer service, seeking investment to using social media, sponsorship, hospitality and many others. Straight talking, nothing is off the table and nothing is taboo. The Bob Pritchard Show is broadcast live every Tuesday at 5 PM Pacific Time on the VoiceAmerica Business Channel.

Bob Pritchard

Bob Pritchard has over 30 years’ experience as a straight talking business and marketing troubleshooter and consultant with many of the world’s leading companies on 5 continents. Bob is the recipient of the highly coveted International Marketer of the Year Award, a distinction he shares with some of the world’s top business leaders.

Bob's newest book, Kick Ass Business and Marketing Secrets. How To Blitz Your Competition, the 100,000 word business bible, was released globally by Wiley and Sons, the world's largest business book publisher, in August 2011.

Bob has been a Business speaker and trainer at over 1,500 conferences, including 91 Fortune 500 companies. He has presented to major corporations in 53 countries. Bob was also Joint winner of a Clio award and joint winner of 4 Silver Telly awards for work with Citibank.

Bob was a television and live performer for 15 years, appearing in some 400 television shows as a singer and actor with several recordings including one top 10 hit. He is the Author of 5 internationally best-selling books, including ‘Complex Marketing Made Simple,’ with sales exceeding 100,000 copies. Bob has a wide knowledge of business, has business interests around the world and understands global business and opportunities.

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Ben Baldwin

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Keith Berglund

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Caspar Berry

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That’s a hell of a variation in careers and he was great at all of them,and if that isn't exciting enough………. wait, there's more………
At 25, he moved to Las Vegas and became a professional poker player!
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Wayne Berry

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Mary Bird

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Mark Bowser

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Steven Bradbury

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Miko Branch

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Jon Briggs

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Gray Bright

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Hartford Brown

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Hartford Brown

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Nolan Bushnell

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Rachael Cain

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Liesl Capper

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LIESL CAPPER

LIESL CAPPER
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Keith Chambers

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Lindy Chen

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Brian Clopp

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Scott Cohen

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Allan Colman

Allan Colman who teaches business professionals how to identify high quality prospects and then use the quickest methods to get face-to-face meetings, how to focus, pursue and close new business. Allan has generated tens of millions of dollars for the companies he works with and has coached his individual clients to obtain similar results. Dr. Colman is the CEO of the Closers Group and the creator of the Closing Zone, a proven approach to closing more business in less time. Allan's new book is called Own the Zone, dominate the competition, which is focused on simplifying marketing, finding the right prospects and winning new business, which is, after all what business is all about. One of the things that caught my attention is that his clients call him their Mentor and their Tormentor
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Phillip Cook

My guest Phillip Cook is a business consultant focusing on new technology
He has a background in investment banking and can be considered a serial investor in start up companies and is an inveterate risk taker View Guest page

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Christopher Cooper

Christopher is the founder of Cooper product and is an innovative manufacturer of mobile device accessories. Now with tablets and smart phones being the fastest growing industry in the world today, Christopher has certainly picked a good industry to be in and his timing is perfect.
Cooper product was created last year following the invention of the original iSlip elastic and microfiber tablet screen cleaner. Before manufacturing and launching the device Christopher made sure he had his patents and trademarks in place. He also donates part of his profits to a number of great charities.
Christopher Cooper serves as an active member of the Los Angeles fire Department and he is one all round hell of a good guy.
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Donald Cooper

Donald began his career sweeping floors at 5 years old for 5 cents per day. Long days, low pay….. perfect training for an entrepreneur. He went on to win 7 awards for excellence in Marketing, Service and Business Innovation.
Now he travels the world as a speaker. adding to customers bottom lines. www.donaldcooper.com
A quote from the Editor of Profit Magazine: "A compelling, bottom-line business message...brilliantly delivered."
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Kathy Cramer, Ph.D.

Kathy Cramer, Ph.D., is the founder and managing partner of The Cramer Institute in St. Louis, MO. She pioneered the development of Asset-Based Thinking approaches to coaching, consulting, and training, and inspiring individuals and organizations
Kathy is the author of seven books. The latest release in the Asset-Based Thinking series, Lead Positive: What Highly Effective Leaders See, Say, and Do.
She has worked with organizations such as DuPont, Microsoft, Starbucks, Peabody Energy, Deloittes, MasterCard and the US Air Force, all of whom have adopted Asset-Based Thinking approaches to developing their leaders and managing change. Kathy also founded Saint Louis University Medical Center’s HealthLine and was named director of its Stress Center. Under her leadership, programs in corporate wellness, stress prevention, and lifestyle improvement were adopted nationwide by more than 300 corporations, 60 hospitals, and the United States Air Force.
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Ron Creevey

Ron Creevey MY first guest today is a guy I have known for a number of years who has been hugely successful in the internet space and now has the balls to take on Facebook. For those of you who watch the business news channels you would have seen some of their media conferences over the last few weeks.
Ron Creevy was responsible for many of Australia's first commercial internet links in the 1990's. He became Managing Director for Magna Data, then owned by NTT Japan with over 4000 corporate clients in Australia.
In 2007, Ron teamed up with mobile pioneer Thomas Ziliacus who started Nokia Asia as together they formed Yoo Zoo, the leading global and payments company based out of Singapore.
The first shot across the bow of Facebook is "The Break", a worldwide 'Battle of the Bands ' and over 1000 bands have registered and uploaded their video chip. Today Yuu Zoo has 2 million registered users in 164 countries.
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Janine Darling

My guest is Janine Darling, Founder & CEO of Stash Datacentric Security, a technology company focused exclusively on data security which is the fastest growing crime in the world. In 2014, over 1 Billion records stolen Cyber theft cost half a trillion dollars and 500,000 jobs, 30,000 companies were hacked every day, 185 Million documented intrusions that have by-passed perimeter security tools, and virus-detectors.
STASH is unlike 99.9% of other security offerings, hacks are neutralized. and hackers go away empty-handed, without any useable data sets. No matter what other security options are in use, STASH is the most impactful weapon to have in the data security arsenal.
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Darren Darnborough

Darren Darnborough is an entrepreneur and creative professional and self-confessed Neophile who loves variety and despises routine. He has extensive experience as an actor, appearing in award-winning feature films, commercials and TV shows, including British hit EastEnders and US cult show True Blood. He is also a writer/producer and made his directorial debut in 2013 with the film Stefano Formaggio.

As an entrepreneur, Darren has founded and co-founded various businesses, including event concepts at Earls Court, Sundance, Cannes and in Hollywood; fashion label Corsellis; the expat group Brits In LA, SponsorBridge and www.StuckForStaff.com - the UK and USA's largest promotional staff resource. Darren previously served on the Advisory Board of the Bel Air Film Festival; as the US Ambassador of The Global Party and currently the Gala Committee of Sir Richard Branson's Rock The Kasbah; the Britweek Committee and the Advisory Board of Face Forward.
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Jeff Davidson

Some people think of him as a human dynamo who accomplishes more in a day than many people get done in a week, while still finding time to stay in shape, spend time with his daughter, and keenly pursue a wide variety of intellectual interests. Some people regard him as the best there is at offering new perspectives and fresh solutions to information overload and the resulting time pressure and life balance problems people face today.
Jeff is “The Work-Life Balance Expert” , has written 59 books and has made 806 speaking presentations to some of the top companies in the world. We talk about his latest, internationally acclaimed book “Simpler Living”.
Jeff’s 60 second series; The 60 Second Organiser, 60 Second Self Starter and 60 Second Innovator are popular around the world.
His speeches have been featured on seven occasions in Vital Speeches of the Day along with the likes of Dr. Henry Kissinger, Lee Iacocca, George Bush (senior), William Bennett, Michael Eisner, and Alan Greenspan.
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Rob Dickens

Rob Dickens was managing Director of Warner Bros Music Publishing, then appointed International Vice President when he personally signed up Vangelis, The Sex Pistols among others. He later became the Chairman of Warner Music UK and made the company hugely profitable with artists such as Prince, Foreigner, ZZ Top and Madonna driving the profits. Rob brought Seal, Simply Red and Cher to the table.
He constructed Cher’s song “Believe” and worked with Rod Stewart. He works extensively in the Arts and was honored by the Queen with a CBE and in 2003 was named ‘Man of the Year’ receiving the Music Industry Trust Award.
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Anneke DiPietro

My 15 year old guest Anneke DiPietro who attends Stanford's online high school, created Xirkl, a new social media platform that represents the needs of the user as opposed to advertisers. At just 15, Anneke already has her name attached to two separate patents currently progressing through the system. Just how does Xirkl differ from Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat?
The social media platform developed by Anneke is based on a simple premise. Any number of people may follow you but you can only follow 21 people.
"Xirkl will always the user's needs first. That's rule number one and that will never change," promises Anneke.
Anneke says that "every day is like a mini-MBA for her - but with far less homework, thank goodness!" A project that started as a chance to learn about spreadsheets and budgets has propelled her into the worlds of finance, entrepreneurial tactics, and sophisticated software development. View Guest page

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Bernie Dohrmann

Bernie Dohrmann known as the millionair maker, the Chairman of CEOSpace, is a best selling author, and a radio talk show host. He developed the Sovereign Nation program with Tony Robbins, Dr Jeff Magee, Publisher of The Performance Magazine, Ed Bogle and others.
Bernie is the coach of the coaches, working with some of the world’s top CEO’s. Most important is his work on the crowd funding legislation coming into effect beginning in July, that is expected to release up to $1 trillion to entrepreneurs.
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Pamela Donnelly

My guest today is my good friend Pamela Donnelly who is a successful entrepreneurial disruptionist in the education sector. A bestselling author endorsed by Larry King and Time Magazine's go-to expert in college admissions, Pamela is Founder and CEO of GATE System LLC and Valley Prep Tutoring Services Inc, both located in Los Angeles. She graduated Columbia University in the City of New York summa cum laude with degrees in Literature, Writing, and Secondary Education and has built her educational services companies by inspiring the best and brightest in the field to collaborate with her to bring much-needed change to the way America "does" secondary education. Pamela’s team is bringing to life her vision for a comprehensive college admissions system providing equal access to higher education for teens everywhere, regardless of socio-economic status. View Guest page

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Tim Draper

Tim Draper is the creator of "viral marketing." His use of "viral marketing" in web-based e-mail to geometrically spread an Internet product was instrumental to the success of Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail, and has been adopted as a standard marketing technique to hundreds of businesses. Draper invested in and contributed to the development of Skype (acquired by eBay then by Microsoft), Baidu, Overture (acquired by Yahoo!), Parametric Technology, Hotmail (acquired by Microsoft), Tumbleweed Communications, PLX Technologies, Digidesign (acquired by Avid), Preview Travel (acquired by Travelocity), Four11 (acquired by Yahoo!), Combinet (acquired by Cisco), and Redgate (acquired by AOL), among others.
Draper launched the DFJ Global Network, an international network of venture capital funds in more than thirty cities around the globe. Draper is Founder and Chair Emeritus for The BizWorld Foundation that teach children about business, entrepreneurship and finance in the US and around the world.
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Terry Drayton

Terry Drayton loves entrepreneurship and thinks it’s very important for our society and country, especially as a gateway to upward mobility and overall prosperity. Terry has spent the last 29 years doing 9 startups and was an investment banker before that helping other entrepreneurs raise money. After his third start-up he went back to school to become an entrepreneurship professor but didn’t finish it, instead doing my fourth startup. I’m a 15 year volunteer, teacher, mentor, judge and board member at the University of Washington’s Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship. Terry is the CEO of his new startup, Storrage in Seattle and he is living proof that you don't need an education to be a successful entrepreneur. His English teacher would be horrified because he spelled his company name storage with two R’s. S T O R R A G E. Storrage is a brilliant idea and is an Uber like business model that has the potential to disrupt the $20 billion plus self storage industry. View Guest page

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Brian Duncan

My guest today is Brian Duncan who has over 12 years in the restaurant industry beginning his career in college working every job from dishwasher to server. After graduating from Perdue University Brian went on to work in food and beverage consulting focusing on international chains and consumer products manufacturing for such companies as Hilton and Revolution Foods. During his time consulting Brain focused on creating efficiencies by utilizing technology. Brian’s background paved the way to multiple tech startups including Chowly. Brian now serves as co-founder and board member for Chowly Inc. and is primarily focused on business development, sales and marketing.
Chowly integrates your third party online ordering platforms (TOOS), such as Grubhub, Eat24 and ChowNow with your restaurant POS bringing the virtual ordering experience full circle. Spend more time on your business and less time typing orders. View Guest page

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Ken Dunn

Ken Dunn is not only the creator of the new platform Readers Legacy; he is also an author of 4 books and the publisher of Next Century Publishing. Next Century Publishing has been dubbed by Publishers Weekly as being of one of the fastest growing hybrid book publishing companies in the United States. As CEO/Founder of Next Century Publishing, Ken Dunn is currently leading the charge in changing the way people write, read and experience books. After spending 14 years in investigative and tactical policing, Ken was able to hone deep organization and leadership skills, but also spark an entrepreneurial fire that lay deep inside.
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Sarah Elliston

My guest, Sarah Elliston, didn't realized she was a pain in the arse “difficult” person. Then one day, her boss pointed out that she was disrupting the office camaraderie and production, as well as impeding her own professional advancement. That was her wakeup call.
Now, I have always been a believer in the theory that the only way to change people is to change people. I have always taken the view that difficult people are cancerous and the quicker you cut the out the better. However, Sarah has now become an expert in how to deal with difficult people, so it seems that we might be diametrically opposed. Sarah may be able to teach us all valuable information.
Sarah has a new book, Lessons Learned from a Difficult Person: How to Deal with People Like Us. View Guest page

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Jeff Ernst

Jeff Ernst has been a marketing consultant and strategist for hundreds of brands, including world-leading brands like ConAgra and LodgeNet. Jeff was VP of Sales and Marketing at Netbriefings, as well as a Director at Minnesota West, where he won awards and spoke frequently on innovation in civic and private partnerships. Jeff is the Chief Operating Officer and Co-founder of Smync, the Social Word-of-Mouth Marketing Platform, providing the toolkit for brands to foster advocate relationships that grow business. Jeff is a business and integrated marketing leader with over 25 years experience in developing and managing brands from startups to Fortune 500, including over 8 years in social media marketing.
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Martyn Etherington

Martyn Etherington is Chief Marketing Officer and Chief of Staff of Mitel, responsible for all aspects of the company’s corporate marketing strategy, brand, and digital programs globally. Prior to joining Mitel, Martyn served for 11 years as Tektronix Vice President of Marketing. In addition, he had responsibility for business operations and general management of the Latin America region. In this role, he provided leadership for all Tektronix marketing and business operations worldwide and was responsible for the development and execution of the company’s go-to-market and marketing growth strategies.
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Don Ferguson

Don Ferguson who started started building software in 1981. He built his first company in 1996 which was sold during the dot com boom. Don has built business systems for banking, insurance, manufacturing, and retail, for such clients as the New York Times, Chase Manhattan Bank, Bank of Montreal, Maritz, Shaw Cable Systems, Chapters Bookstore, IBM, and Financial Post. In 2008 by forming MobileTREC, he set his sights on protecting our kids and elders with advanced technology. Since then he's worked with police, fire, medical, parents, kids, families, and elders across the United States to construct the most advanced safety solution. He's currently taking that solution to the marketplace.
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Alan Fine

My guest today is Alan Fine who has written a great book which is a New York Times bestseller and was judged the “best leadership book of the year”. The book is called “You already know how to be great; a simple way to remove interference and unlock your greatest potential”. Alan began his career as a tennis coach working with up and coming tennis professionals where he realised that the biggest performance challenge wasn't that people didn't know what to do, but rather they didn't do what they know.
These days Alan provides leadership, management, and frontline employee training programs, executive coaching services, team performance workshops, and reinforcement services to a number of fortune 500 clients. Tens of thousands of people use Allans GROW model which is considered to be the gold standard approach by corporate leaders worldwide. I can attest to how busy Alan is, as I have been trying to organise this interview for almost 2 months.
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Andrew Fischer

My guest today is a seasoned digital media entrepreneur, Andrew Fischer, who is the CEO and Co-Founder of Choozle, the leading self-service programmatic digital marketing platform which now powers media execution for over 800+ global advertisers. Prior to Choozle, Andrew co-founded and built the RGM Alliance, a premium focused online advertising network that reaches over 120 MM consumers in the US. View Guest page

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Jason Forrest

My guest Jason Forrest, CEO and Head Sales Coach at Forrest Performance Group, which fortunately they abbreviate to FPG, is a thought leader and behavioral change expert on a mission to convince everyone he knows that they are enough! He is a sales trainer, a management coach, and the author of three books, including his latest, Leadership Sales Coaching.
Jason is Chairman of the National Speakers Association’s Million Dollar Speakers Group. He has been awarded Training Magazine’s Top Young Trainer and a Gold Stevie Award for Sales Training Leader of the Year. He has also been awarded the top sales management program in the world. Jason is an expert at creating high-performance cultures through complete training programs. He incorporates experiential learning to increase profit, implement cultural accountability, and transform companies into high performance organizations by unleashing their human performance.
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Allan Frankel

My guest today is Dr. Allan Frankel who graduated second in his class from the UCLA School of Medicine and was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honors society. For 3 years, Dr. Frankel was selected by his peers as one of LA magazines “Top Internists”. He was a Clinical Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine, for eighteen years. The Chartscape medical software program used by the UCLA Bowyer Cancer Center and the eScript medical software utilized by Kaiser Permanente Health System were both developed by Dr. Frankel. After a distinguished career in traditional medicine Allan Frankel is one of the world’s leading authorities on dosed cannabis medicine. With over 35 years experience in Internal Medicine, Dr. Frankel applies his knowledge of all aspects of the cannabis plant and its therapeutic value to the treatment of multiple serious medical conditions.
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Constance Freedman

Constance Freedman is the Managing Director of the Second Century Ventures Fund. She is also the Vice President of Strategic Investments for NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® where she assesses key strategic investment initiatives and is the Managing Director of REach™, Second Century Ventures' technology accelerator program.
She has an entrepreneurial background in Venture Capital, Technology and Real Estate, being an investor at Cue Ball, an early and growth stage investment firm focused on the information services and consumer sectors. Constance takes an active board role in all of the SCV Portfolio companies including DocuSign, Ifbyphone, Symform and Xceligent. She is an Advisor on the Corporate Venture Group Advisory board at the National Venture Capital Association and is on the Board of Overseers of From the Top. She earned a BS from Boston University and a MBA from Harvard Business School. She is one smart cookie….
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Peter Friedman

Peter Friedman, a social media visionary with 18 years experience in the social content marketing space at LiveWorld, another 12 years at Apple). He’s provided multiple global brands with strategic social media guidance and delivered hundreds of social media programs for them in multiple countries and languages. These include Apple’s industry wide social network, AppleLink; MINI Cooper’s Member’s Lounge; HBO’s original show character-driven web site community; and Walmart’s Facebook and Twitter programs. Peter founded LiveWorld, raised over $100 Million in private rounds and an IPO, grew the company to hundreds of employees, managed its downsizing, survival, and re-invention through multiple market crashes, recessions, and resurgences.
His writings can be found at The Huffington Post and across the web. Peter’s new book, “The CMO’s Social Media Handbook, A Step By Step Guide For Leading Marketing Teams in the Social Media World” has just been released.
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David Frood

My guest today is David Frood who spent almost 20 years working with medium to large corporations as an external consultant. Projects were associated with protecting existing income, generating new income and improving sales force management and efficiencies.
In 1989, when David was working for a multinational technology company, he became interested in why employees do not tell their employers ideas about new products, markets and improvements to process. As a result of studying this within many corporations over two decades he wrote “The Thinking Corporation”. This book was then translated into a corporate change program that directly addresses the capacity of an organization to innovate through capturing, evaluating and implementing employee-generated ideas. “Steps to becoming A Thinking Corporation” (2014) is a summary of how to transform any organization into A Thinking Corporation. View Guest page

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Artem Gassan

Artem Gassan, Founder of Whale Path which is a marketplace for business research, connecting postgraduate students from top universities with small businesses that need research now. This enables professionals to get customized quality research at reduced costs and students earn money, gain work experience and connect with future potential employers. A great idea.
Artem is a Vision-oriented serial entrepreneur and Chief Technology Officer with a proven track record of successful exit strategies in Social Media and Big Data market industries. Active board member and technology advisor to various startups and small-cap publicly traded companies.
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Neil Gaydon

Neil Gaydon became the President and CEO of SMART Technologies just about 2 years ago. He is an innovative, results oriented leader, focused on delivering exceptional growth in highly competitive markets and turnaround situations. Neil recently held the position of CEO for Pace Plc., the world’s largest provider of digital television technologies to the Pay TV industry and led the company in a major turnaround with a ten-fold increase in revenues (over $2 billion in 2010). Prior to Pace, Neil held senior roles in several high end technology companies and his hallmark has been defining and executing strategy, creating effective structure and changing business culture on a global scale. Neil is a graduate of Harvard Business School in the Advanced Management Program. Personal awards include 2009 Institute of Directors ‘Director of the Year’, 2009 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award winner and 2008 TechMARK Personality of the Year View Guest page

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David Giannetto

David Giannetto is the author of three books, including the newly released Big Social Mobile, How Digital Initiatives can Reshape the Enterprise and Drive Business Results. He has been named a thought-leader by the American Management Association, Business Finance Magazine and Consumer Goods Technology Magazine. He also writes for the AMA and the Huffington Post and as SVP of Salient Management Company helps some of today’s leading brands coordinate complex initiatives, technology and information to create tangible results.
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Richard Gibbs

Now I meet lots of very successful people but how about this for a resume.. And let's begin with a question.
What do the Simpsons, BattleStar Galactica, The Muppets, Korn, Robert Palmer and Dr Dolittle have in common?
The answer is my friend Richard Gibbs. Richard has scored over 60 feature films that cumulatively grossed well over $1 billion. You will remember the epic score for Queen of the dammed and his musical sounds of space that helped propell Battle Star Galactica to huge success. He also set the sound of the Simpsons. If that's not enough, as a keyboardist Richard has recorded with Robert Palmer, Tom Waits, Melissa Etheridge and War among hundreds of others. He has performed live with people like Korn, Chaka khan and Tom Jones.
Richards beyond state of the art Woodshed recording studios in Malibu, overlooking the Pacific, attract people like Sting, Pink, Cher and Lenny Kravitz.
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Al Gini

Al Gini, who is a Professor of Business Ethics and Chair of the Department of Management in the Quinlan School of Business at Loyola University in Chicago. He is also the co-founder and long-time Associate Editor of Business Ethics Quarterly, the journal of the Society for Business Ethics. For over twenty-six years Al has been the Resident Philosopher on National Public Radio's Chicago affiliate, WBEZ-FM, and he regularly lectures to community and professional organizations on issues of business and ethics. Al is a best-selling author with about 10 books to his name including The Importance of Being Lazy: In Praise of Play, Leisure and Vacations and the 10 Virtues of Outstanding Leaders with Ronald M. Green (Wiley & Blackwell, 2013). This guy's pretty confident of his stuff, one of his book titles is “God can quote me on that” Wow!
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Joyce Gioia

Joyce Gioia (joy-yah) began her business career as an entrepreneur at the tender age of fourteen, when she founded her first company, Jack & Jill Parties for Children. Later, at the age of 28, she was the youngest national magazine publisher in the United States. Joyce is president and CEO of The Herman Group and Employer of Choice, Inc. She is a Certified Management Consultant and Professional Speaker focusing on the human side of enterprise. As a Strategic Business Futurist, Joyce’s Herman Trend Alert is distributed to 29,000 people in 87 countries in three languages every week.
Providing a unique combination of high tech and high touch, she helps her diverse clients prepare for tomorrow. Joyce has written five business books, three business bestsellers, including Business Week, Entrepreneur, The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, and National Public Radio and she has served clients in 46 states and on six continents.
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David Goldman

Currently the CEO and founder of ComedyTime, a multi-platform comedy network that began as the comedy channel for Sprint TV in 2004. Under his leadership ComedyTime has become a market leader in the production and distribution of premium short-form comedy content for mobile, broadband, cable, satellite and IPTV services. The company has also produced over 200 half-hour episodes for various cable networks and for Hulu. In addition to the ComedyTime brand David created vertical brands aimed at Women, Latinos, Asians and Urban audiences. Prior to Comedy Time, he was Senior Vice President of Motion Pictures at both William Morris Agency and ICM representing such talent as Will Smith, , Mick Jagger, Billy Idol and The Beach Boys. David also produced the sitcom "One on One" for Paramount Television and UPN, the movie "Alibi" for Viacom Television and ABC and numerous live comedy tapings for AOL.
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Dr. Mark Goulston

Dr. Mark Goulston is widely regarded as a “People Hacker.” He started out as a crisis psychiatrist specializing in suicide intervention, then a death and dying expert doing house calls to dying founders/CEO’s and their families, then an FBI/police hostage negotiation trainer, then advisor to attorneys in high profile trials (i.e O.J. Simpson criminal trial) and currently serves as a confidante and advisor to entrepreneurs, founders and CEO’s who helps them see into their futures.
In this presentation… no, in this performance, Dr. Mark Goulston will not play, but will be Steve Jobs coming back from the grave to describe his return to Apple in 1997 through the release of the iPhone in 2017 and Jobs’ thinking behind what he noticed and did. Jobs’ thinking was captured by Matt Weinberger in Business Insider article, “How Steve Jobs saved Apple from disaster and led it to rule the world in 39 Photos.” View Guest page

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Mark Goulston

Mark Goulston from the Goulston Group, helps companies and organizations to create a "gotta have it" response to their products and services. He does this by teaching Founders, CEO's and innovators to think like Steve Jobs. When you create a "gotta have it!" attitude, that almost immediately crosses over to a "gonna buy it," mindset. This means you never need to sell... you just take sales orders.
On a personal level, Mark has been a "people hacker" for more than thirty years, originally hacking into the psyche of suicidal patients to help them discover a reason and desire to live. Then he hacked into the psyche of hostage takers so that they turn themselves peacefully over to FBI and police. CEO's and Founders were the logical extensions to this helping them to maximize their success and effectiveness. View Guest page

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Samantha Gowing

Today me guest is Samantha Gowing who is an international wellness expert who has worked around the world for 15 years advising corporations and speaks at conferences regularly about the importance of keeping personnel healthy and happy. Samantha is renowned for her nutritional wisdom and for being a powerful influencer among healthy lifestyle audiences and is also engaged by luxury hotels and health retreats worldwide. At the age of just 24 she became a hotelier and a chef hat-winning restauranteur before turning her heart and mind to food as medicine. Her first book “The Healing Feeling” is 143 beautifully designed color pages of health giving recipes and extensive knowledge of nutrition and Chinese medicine. I was fortunate to catch up with this absolutely delightful lady last week for a couple of coffees while she sipped on green tea. View Guest page

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Dan Gregory

Dan Gregory is a behavioural researcher and strategist, as well as an author, educator, international speaker and social commentator, he specializes in behaviors and belief systems. He analyzes what drives, motivates and influences us. Dan is a regular on ABC’s Gruen Planet and has worked with some of the biggest brands in the world: Coca-Cola, Unilever, Vodafone, MTV and News Ltd
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William Guy

William Guy is Founder & Chairman Emeritus of Cornerstone International Group* and CEO of his local company, Cornerstone Leadership Solutions, has served as a consultant to Boards of Directors and senior management of many of the world's largest organizations in both the public and private sectors. An active philanthropist, William served three terms as President of Outreach Love, an international charity for under-privileged, homeless, and mentally-challenged children, and he is the proud recipient of the prestigious “Silver Beaver” Award for outstanding service to youth and to the community.
Additionally, he has written many articles, books, and guest columns on the subjects of career planning and organizational leadership. His newest book series is entitled “Getting a Job You Love,” Is available on Amazon
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Evan Hackel

My guest Evan Hackel, creator of the concept of Ingaging Leadership and author of Ingaging Leadership Evan is a successful businessman who has started more than 10 companies. During his tenure at CCA Global Partners, he ran a $5 billion division. One of his signature achievements was turning around a bankrupt business in four years, more than doubling system-wide sales to exceed $2 billion.
He is a leader in the training field. He was CEO of Tortal Training in North Carolina that specializes in developing and implementing interactive training solutions for companies in all sectors
Evan Hackel, the creator of the concept of Ingaged Leadership, is a thought leader in the fields of leadership and success. For more than two decades, he has helped hundreds of organizations build employee ingagement, increase profitability and achieve success. View Guest page

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Mark Hamade

Mark Hamade is the COO for Equal Earth and has more than 20 years experience in executive leadership roles in strategy, operations management, human resources and sales. Mark is known for being a change agent and has a proven track record of helping entrepreneurial companies to accelerate growth and drive increased profitability. Prior to joining Equal Earth, Hamade was COO for Mai Companies, leading operations for three global distinct businesses, and he helped grow revenues by more than 130% in the first year alone. He also enjoyed great success with Dataskill, a leading IBM Business Partner and at Ramp Rate, a $25 Billion advisory firm for IT sourcing. Mark is a sought after speaker, a frequent blogger and hosts a weekly radio show dedicated to business leadership topics.
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Nick Hardcastle

Nick Hardcastle is a highly talented Australian entertainer and media personality with extensive experience in stage, screen, radio, music and television. Based in LA, Nick has enjoyed success around the world. He is also one of the nicest guys you could ever wish to meet.
Nick began his TV hosting career on one of Australia’s most popular music programs, Video Hits before joining Australia’s favorite long running drama series Home and Away.
His sense of fun, irreverence and his ‘up for anything’ attitude made him a favorite with kids in his roles on Saturday Disney, Nickelodeon, alongside The Wiggles, on ABC Kids and as host of 5 seasons of Australia’s highest rating children’s show, Creature Features.
Nick is a popular Emcee and concert performer the US and in the UK, is the creator, producer and host of an Australian talent showcase series called Sunday in the Apartment in the UK and Sunday in Hollywood in LA, showcasing the most exciting Australian talent abroad. View Guest page

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Lynton V. Harris

Lynton V. Harris, based in New York for over a decade, has taken his live entertainment vision to every corner of the globe, producing and directing shows in the USA. Europe, Asia, the UK and Australia Harris and Sudden Impact! have created and produced live spectaculars and interactive adventures beginning with the ground breaking 'Madison Scare Garden' at New York's Madison Square Garden, which enjoyed sold-out seasons from 1996-1999. Sudden Impact's expertise in staging large-scale live productions led to his partnership with Universal Studios. Harris created the successful tour of Interactive Adventures based on the mega-hit movies, including The Mummy Live!; The Mummy Returns Live!; The Scorpion King Live!; Lara Croft: Tomb Raider Live!; The Van Helsing Experience Live and most recently -- "Prison Break Live!" -- based on the hit Fox TV series.
Harris also produced live entertainment for Madame Tussaud's attractions in London, Amsterdam, New York, and Las Vegas.
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JEFF HAYZLETT

Recently I was fortunate to hear a dynamic and extremely pragmatic speaker who absolutely wowed an audience that had been exposed to all the great speakers on the planet.
Jeff is a global business expert, highly creative with a unique ability to cut through the bullshit, working with some of the world’s biggest companies.
He is a celebrated author, his first book ‘The Mirror Test’ is a must read and I have just finished reading his second book ‘Running the Gauntlet’. This is a book about many aspects of business, but the most powerful for me was the need for all of us to embrace change, knowing what you need to do and having the intestinal fortitude and the perseverance to see it through.
Jeff believes that fear, apathy and lack of personal responsibility turns a good company into a dead company.
This was evidenced when as Chief Marketing office and Vice President of the Eastman Kodak company, he tried to convince the company to change. They didn’t, wouldn’t or couldn’t, and failed.
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Jeffrey Hayzlett

My guest today is Jeffrey Hayzlett a primetime television host of C-Suite with Jeffrey Hayzlett and Executive Perspectives on C-Suite TV, he is the business radio host of All Business with Jeffrey Hayzlett on CBS on-demand radio network Play.It. He is also a global business celebrity, speaker, best-selling author, and Chairman of C-Suite Network, home of the world’s most powerful network of C-Suite leaders. Jeffrey is the author of two bestselling business books, The Mirror Test and Running the Gauntlet. His third book, Think Big, Act Bigger, is released this month. Jeffrey is a leading business expert, cited in Forbes, SUCCESS, Mashable, Marketing Week and Chief Executive, among others. He shares his executive insight and commentary on television networks like Bloomberg, MSNBC, Fox Business, and C-Suite TV. He is a former Bloomberg contributing editor and primetime host, and has appeared as a guest celebrity judge on NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice with Donald Trump for three seasons.
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Diane Helbig

Diane Helbig The president of “Seize This Day Coaching” an expert in the subject of Added Value. Internationally recognized business and leadership development coach and consultant, author, speaker, radio show host, and workshop facilitator. “As a certified, professional coach and president of Seize This Day Coaching, I help businesses and organizations operate more constructively and profitably. I evaluate, encourage, and guide my clients”.
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Bernado Herzer

Bernado Herzer, an entrepreneur and inventor with a deep passion for helping the environment. Bernado is the founder and CEO of LEHR Incorporated which is dedicated to developing environmentally friendly technology.
Bernado discovered that gasoline powered lawn mowers, blowers and other garden tools produce up to 3 times more hydrocarbons than a motor vehicle does in an hour. He has become a leader in the production of non polluting gardening and marine equipment. He has won numerous awards for his work.
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DAVID HOOKER

DAVID HOOKER - A down to earth, let’s get to it guy. He has the rare ability to simplify challenging issues. David established his personal gold standard in sales by walking the war torn streets of Ireland selling door to door – and as a “Brit” that was a tough call. He learned the disciplines for success the hard way, took the knocks, fell into the gutter and climbed back to the top.
David is an author, broadcaster and originator of ‘The New Gold Standard” (the definitive path to success in Sales and Marketing). In other words, the old ways of doing things are not good enough any longer. As I have said many time on the program, we all face the same challenge – Taking full advantage of the capacity to excel that we were born with, that somehow gets lost as we get involved in the world of business.
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Adam Hudson

Adam is the founder and CEO of Fire Starter Videos, one of the fatest growing animation studios in America. Based in Hollywood, Fire Starter Videos helps companies and other organisations to explain what they do better using the power of animated videos. Firestarter do everything from whiteboard animations to cartoon videos
Most videos run for less than two minutes, and Fire Starter has worked for everyone from NGO's like UNICEF, to Fortune 100's like Mastercard, right through to small businesses and tech-startups from all over the world.
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Monte Huebsch

Google expert Monte Huebsch. Monte holds the Google Analytics Individual Qualification and he completed the first Google Apps training at the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA in 2008.
If it has anything to do with Google, Monte knows it!
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Linda Blum Huntington

Linda Blum Huntington is President of Emerald Forest Music representing the catalogs of superstars such as Macy Gray and Sophie B Hawkins and executive produced records for the likes of Alison Krause and John Waite.
For the past few years, Linda has also been building a global business with Arbonne, a multilevel health and wellness range of products and has been extremely successful, Arbonne’s 600 products are described as botanically based, pure, safe, vegan, not tested on animals and green. Linda describes a new model MLM system.
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Jabu

Jabu is a South African artist who has been exhibited worldwide. Brought up in the Apartheid era, he uses his artwork to express his experiences of what is often an unfriendly world and bringing a positive element into it. His artwork is unique, vibrant with a twist of both urban and contemporary touch. The rich and vibrant colors capture diverse appeal from abstract work to artwork inspired by elements and tapestry from his African background. ArtisSpectrum Magazine quote:
Nuanced by color, variable degrees on depth perception, fluid color, and textures of abstract space, all of the paintings exhibit strength in the use of color and technique to express mood, emotion and milieu. With paint as the purveyor of vision, all of the paintings achieve poignancy through a unique perspective that is evident throughout the body of work.
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Robin Jay

My guest Robin Jay, is an award-winning author, professional speaker, president and founder of the Las Vegas convention speakers Bureau and most recently she was a producer of the personal development movie “The Keeper Of The Keys” which stars Jack Canfield, John Gray and Marcy Shimof. Robin is a contributor to Chicken Soup For The Wine Lover's Soul so she is obviously a girl after my own heart, she has featured on MSNBC, Newsweek, CNN, BBC, the New York Times and a heap of other media too numerous to mention.
Robin became a filmmaker because she quite rightly believes that in the digital world of today, you can watch a movie on your smart phone and you can reach more people with a more engaging more compelling message by film.
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David John

David has a great rich baritone voice, the fiddles, steel guitar and the personality of every member of the band playing music and songs that the audience interacted with was just great. David John and the Comstock cowboys are everywhere. Their 16 albums are available in every store, every performance, whether it be in Virginia City or a Nevada casino or in any other venue across the country are packed.
David John was nominated songwriter and entertainer of the year by the Western music Association. They have generated CD sales never before seen by an independent label. An increasing number of fans from all over the world see them rapidly becoming the number one Western music act in America.
With 16 top-selling albums and 18 singles David John is already a Western music legend, as legendary as Virginia City itself.
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Coach Jim Johnson

Coach Jim Johnson is a high school basketball coach and motivational speaker. His story of giving an autistic boy (“J-Mac”) on his team the chance to make his dream come true has captivated the hearts of millions of Americans. He has been featured on Oprah, ESPN, The Jim Rome Show and dozens of other national TV and radio programs.
Jim’s story is so inspiring, he was invited to meet with President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Coach Jim Johnson’s message is positive: Dreams Really Do Come True!
Based on what transpired in a few short moments in early 2006, Coach Jim Johnson is now an authority on the subject of realizing your dreams.
Since 2006, Coach Johnson has taken his message of inspiration, teamwork and leadership across the country, telling audiences everywhere that “Dreams Really Do Come True”. View Guest page

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Simon Jordan

Simon Jordan Went from a 20s death wish, weighing 320 pounds ( 146 kgs) binge eating, drinking and drugs. 18 months later weighing 182 pounds (82 kgs) he finished the London Marathon in 3 hrs 45 minutes, clean from drink and drugs. He puts that same dedication into his business. One year into setting up his Marketing company he set up his own highly acclaimed online TV channel sharing marketing tips to a global audience. He has put his success down to the power of social media. Author of “ How to Sky Rocket Your Business (without burning your fingers)” which has received 5 stars on Amazon
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Simon Jordan

Simon Jordan went from a 20s death wish, weighing 320 pounds ( 146 kgs) binge eating, drinking and drugs. 18 months later weighing 182 pounds (82 kgs) he finished the London Marathon in 3 hrs 45 minutes, clean from drink and drugs. He puts that same dedication into his business. One year into setting up his Marketing company he set up his own highly acclaimed online TV channel sharing marketing tips to a global audience. He has put his success down to the power of social media. Author of “ How to Sky Rocket Your Business (without burning your fingers)” which has received 5 stars on Amazon
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George Kansas

From 1995 to 2005, George Kansas was a performance coach to executives, entrepreneurs, athletes and artists. He is a practicing attorney and single father of two, focusing on helping busy people strike a healthy, nurturing balance between professional and personal responsibilities and physical and spiritual growth. In the midst of launching a boutique record label and the relief concert series - Rock2Rebuild - George was diagnosed with a rare Leukemia, which had destroyed 100% of his bone marrow. 5 months later, after employing a rigorous combination of medical science, creative visualization, and his self developed Bio-Transformative Meditation - George is “cancer free”.
At the dawn of the internet, he joined forces with speaking greats, Zig Ziglar, Denis Waitley and Brian Tracey, to launch the world’s first online coaching platform and led in the development of the internet’s first content delivery for motivational and inspirational business and personal development recordings. View Guest page

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Ron Kaufman

Ron Kaufman is the world’s leading authority on customer service, author of 14 books, whose new book ‘Uplifting Service’ is a sensation. Any business can say the customer is king, and many spend a lot of time and money on incremental service improvement. But Ron understands the only reliable way for a company to achieve and maintain a competitive edge is to build a culture that empowers every employee to surprise and delight customers and colleagues every day with truly uplifting service. Making transformation his mission, Ron is one of the world’s most sought-after educators, consultants, thought-leaders and customer service speakers on the topic of achieving superior service. He has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and USA Today.
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Darren Kavinoky

Darren Kavinoky is no stranger to the television cameras, courtroom, or the speaker’s podium – he is an accomplished trial lawyer, a well-known television host and legal analyst, and a compelling keynote speaker.
Darren is the creator and host of the hit TV show Deadly Sins on Investigation Discovery. He is also a certified interventionist, attorney and legal analyst, and “misbehavior” expert who appears constantly on the Today show, The View, Entertainment Tonight, The Insider, Dr. Phil, Dr. Drew, CNN, HLN, Fox News, and countless other TV and radio shows.
He is the founder of 1.800.NoCuffs–The Kavinoky Law Firm and is known as an award-winning criminal defense attorney. The American Trial Lawyers Association has named him one of the “Top 100 Trial Lawyers in California” each year since 2007. More important than his professional accomplishments is the compelling inspirational tale he has to share.
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Rick Kellard

Rick Kellard is an Emmy Award winning, executive producer/writer. .
Rick began his career writing in variety television, and then transitioned to the half-hour comedy genre where his credits include: "The Redd Foxx Show", "Room For Two", "Hooperman" and more.
He also has a strong foothold in television drama with a long list of credits including: "The Monroes", "The Closer", "Opposite Sex" , "Maximum Bob".
Rick has also worked with such stars as Bill Crosby, Cher, Andy Williams and Richard Prior View Guest page

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Kevin Kelly

My first guest today is Kevin Kelly, a guy from Ireland that I first came across when I was heading off to Iran for a speaking tour. Kevin is an authority on entrepreneurship, leadership, sales, creativity and personal excellence.
Since he obtained his commerce degree he has worked around the world in IT, Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare, Financial Services and retail.
Kevin has released a number of books, is in high demand as a speaker and trainer. His book titles include "Basics before Buzz," "Life: A Trip Towards Trust" and the Best Selling title "How? When you don't know how." View Guest page

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Brendan King

Brendan King is the CEO of VendAsta and Brendan’s main focus is to help small businesses do three main things: monitor, manage and build their online reputations. Reputation management is more than just monitoring what customers are saying about you in reviews, social media or any other online source. It is about managing that information and building your digital presence to strengthen their brand.

This is a subject that is really important to every one of us that is in business so I'm really interested to hear what Brendan has to say.
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JESSICA KIZOREK

As you know, I have a penchant for ballsy women, women who push the boundaries to make sure that women get recognized, acknowledged and really get the opportunity to break thru in what is still a man’s world.
Jessica Kizorek is the CEO of the company Badass Business Women.
Badass is just the tip of the iceberg. This dynamo has authored six books, been profiled on CNN’s Young People that Rock, she takes on the most daunting challenges……. and wins.
With her father Bill she has made an extraordinary contribution in 62 countries to NGO’s such as the Special Olympics, Lions Club, One Laptop Per Child and many more.
I wish I had time to list all of Jessica’s amazing achievements. Jessica’s purpose is to incite entrepreneurial women to take life by the horns, embrace their inner ‘bad ass’ and kick the hell out of this world. I added that last bit, my words not hers.
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Ken Kragen

My guest Ken Kragen is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Harvard Business School. He has managed some of the world's most important entertainers, including Kenny Rogers, Lionel Richie, Trisha Yearwood, Olivia Newton-John and The Bee Gees among others.
His belief that “It’s much easier to do the impossible than the ordinary” has enabled him to organize the historic recording session “We are the World” in just 28 days to fight starvation in Africa; create “Hands Across America,” a continuous line of five million people together holding hands from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean raising funds and awareness for poverty in the U.S. Ken is one of the few private citizens to receive the prestigious United Nation’s Peace Medal. As well as two MTV Awards, several Grammy Nominations, the International Citizen of the Year Award , EBONY’s American Black Achievement Award and an American Music Award. View Guest page

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Jeffrey Kravitz

My guest today is Jeff Kravitz who represents clients in the entertainment industry, including production companies, studios and individuals with their litigation needs, particularly concerning copyright infringement, invasion of privacy, contract, sexual harassment and he provides business counseling related to their intellectual property.
Jeff was named as one of the leading intellectual property, trademark, copyright and trade secrets attorneys in California by Chambers USA. Has a number of celebrity accounts including Smokey Robinson, Seal, George Lopez, Kobe Bryant GwenStefani and a whole heap more.
Having said all that, today I want to speak about a subject that is beginning to get huge traction and rightly so. Equal pay for equal work. On October 6, last year, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a Senate Bill 358, which took effect about 3 weeks ago. It strengthens California’s existing equal pay laws dating back to 1949
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Bob Kriegel

New York Times Best Selling Author wrote “If it Ain’t Broke…… Break it” and “Sacred Cows Make the Best Burgers”.
One of this country's leading authorities in the field of change and human performance. Bob was an all American swimmer, a pioneer in the field of sports psychology who has coached both Olympic and professional athletes and was a commentator on ESPN. The New York Times said his work “spurred a revolution in performance practices.” Dr. Kriegel has taught at Stanford’s Executive Management Program and was an advertising executive at Young & Rubicam where he managed Proctor and Gamble and Travelers Insurance Accounts. His books, If it ain’t broke...BREAK IT! and Inner Skiing were international bestsellers, and his book Sacred Cows Make the Best Burgers, made Business Week's bestseller list. His latest book on innovation and out of the box thinking is How to Succeed In Business Without Working so Damn Hard.
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Jackie Lapin

PR person extraordinaire Jackie Lapin. Jackie is a master publicist at Jackie Lapin Media Relations. She was one of the pioneer women sport writers in America writing for the Washington Post, New York Times and Sports Illustrated among many.
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Jen Laska

Jen Laska of Jen & Joes Cookie Dough is the power behind the company.
The business is already successful with Jen and Joe’s Cookie Dough being stocked in over 150 major retailers across the country, including places like Gelson’s. Jen wanted some advice on taking the business to the next level. I met her for the first time in the studio, a lovely person and like a true entrepreneur, was very open to some mentoring about her business, her website and to other people’s ideas . As those of you who listen every week know, I have always had mentors and every entrepreneur should surround themselves with people who can provide advice on a range of issues. It has saved my bacon more often than I can remember. Jen is the perfect guest for this show, she created a product, bootstrapped it to the point where they have widespread distribution, and she has done all this while being fully employed in a day job. That sounds like the Modus Operandi of most of the entrepreneurs I know.
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Vinh Le

Vinh Le is the Founder and Chairman of Team Vinh.com International aka: “V”.
Vinh has fought his way back after loosing everything three times in the past. Despite the setbacks he sees Multi-Level-Marketing as a highly efficient way of selling products. Currently a $135 billion industry. Being a business warrior and entrepreneur, he picked himself up, gained experience and moved forward. His experience has equipped him to find a Civic Solution to fix the 99% failure rate, with over 56 million people involved within the Network-Marketing Industry.
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Don Levy

Don has served on the front lines of the digital transformation of entertainment. For 17 years, he led the communication efforts for top visual effects and Digital animation studio, Sony Pictures Imageworks. As the senior vice president of marketing and communications for Sony Pictures, he directed corporate communications, marketing and public relations for Sony Pictures Imageworks, Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment, as well as for Sony Pictures Animation and Sony Online Entertainment.
Don left Sony Pictures in June of 2012 to develop a new family entertainment venture and found Smith Brook Farm, a media, entertainment and tech consultancy.

A visiting scholar at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts' Entertainment Technology Center and teaches entertainment marketing at Boston University's Los Angeles Internship Program.
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Doug Lipp

Doug Lipp, at age 29, was the head of the training team at the world famous Disney University at Disney's corporate headquarters. Doug is fluent in Japanese and was appointed to the start up team for Tokyo Disneyland. Doug trains and speaks to corporate executives about the need to embrace change and continually innovate.

Doug has written eight books on leadership, customer service and international business and Dougs latest book is Disney U; How Disney University Develops the Worlds Most Engaged, Loyal And Customer Centric Employee's. As I have mentioned many times I belong to a tremendous organization for thought leaders called METal that stands for Media, entertainment, technology alpha leaders and Doug addressed us a couple of weeks ago about his experience with Disney. Doug and I are also speaking in Bahrain in a couple of weeks.
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Michael Litt

Michael Litt is a serial entrepreneur and the CEO of Vidyard. Vidyard is a video marketing platform that helps marketers drive results with video content. The Vidyard enables you to add video to your websites in minutes, get real-time analytics, syndicate video to social networks and YouTube, create calls to action, optimize search engine hits, capture leads and brand your player skins all from one place. In other words, it makes using video easy. Michael works as a mentor with a number of entrepreneurs and startups.
He is not only passionate about the power of content marketing and online video, but he is also a thought leader and a surfer.
He is also a jack-of-all-trades, with the ability to do everything from implementing code to developing a sales process. He not only “mans the ship” at Vidyard, he is also currently a member of Communitech’s Board of Directors. When Michael’s not in Waterloo, he’s travelling worldwide - talking about all things video marketing!
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Greg Logan

My guest today, Greg Logan started as a copywriter at Leo Burnett at the age of 19 and worked for them for 17 years from Sydney to Milan, where he was creative director at the age of 25. He started and sold his own agency McMann & Tate and has created some of the most awarded and popular advertising over the past 2 decades, working on the world’s biggest brands like United Airlines, Kellogg’s, Fiat, Subaru, , Microsoft, Proctor & Gamble to name a few. He’s also been the Executive Creative Director of large branding agencies, and in his spare time he writes creates reality TV shows. He would be one of the few people in the world to win international awards across advertising, film and TV.
Greg has clients across the US, the UK and Australia with his new consultancy called The Definery which is helping small to medium businesses become brands.
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John Maddox

John Maddox, a serial entrepreneur and tech startup investor who is bridging the gap between the tech startup idea stage and gaining investment. John is a specialist in business logic and marketing strategy as well as Web and mobile application development. The CEO of Serious Startups who recently sold his interactive agency to focus entirely on helping people take business concepts from the idea stage to launch without needing to raise investment capital in the initial phase when the business is least attractive and money is the most expensive. John is the one taking the risk and he has assembled a great team of specialists to accomplish the goals of the entrepreneur. At the moment all of this capital is coming out of his pocket.
His personal passion is to help inspire those with great ideas to take risks and control their own destiny. But not just from an emotional perspective, but to ensure that they have a solid business model, then move forward to achieve their dreams.
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Professor Lynda Maddox

Dr. Maddox and her husband Darshan and to witness the extraordinary work that she does with her students.
In addition to lecturing at George Washington University, Prof. Maddox also lectures in Thailand and in Sweden. As a marketer myself, I appreciate and am in awe of her skills. Her areas of expertise are in Advertising, Marketing Communications, Internet Marketing and Advertising and Consumer Behavior.
Dr. Maddox has published in numerous professional and scholarly journals, and has appeared on all of the major networks. She serves on the Academic Committee of the American Advertising Federation. She is also a member of the American Marketing Association and the American Academy of Advertising. She was recently recognized by her peers and awarded the prestigious American Advertising Federation (AAF) Distinguished Advertising Educator Award.
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Lloyd Marino

My guest today is Enterprise and Big Data expert Lloyd Marino CEO of Avetta Global who is one hell of a great guy, a fellow METal member who has worked with companies like Expedia, Visa and the US Government to create big data solutions. Lloyd is regarded as a “Tech Whisperer,” a true master at translating and communicating byzantine technical processes that elude even the savviest business minds into language they can grasp. Lloyd is equally conversant in the languages of business and technology, therefore senior executives on both the management and tech sides of today’s completely data-dependent marketplace, regularly call on him to solve complex, data-driven problems. Lloyd brings to the table a quarter century of experience working in senior management roles, including service as Chief Technology Officer and Chief Information Officer for various organizations ranging from emerging growth startups to Fortune 500 companies. View Guest page

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Gavin McGarry

Before founding social media agency Jumpwire Media in 2009, Gavin Mc Garry worked for Skype funded webvideo start up Joost and he was the Head of Cross Platform Business Development at global media company Endemol.
Jumpwire was selected by Fast Company as one of the 10 most innovative companies in media joining the likes of the Huffington Post and Twitter. They have achieved extraordinary results in social media strategies that develop brand equity and generate revenue. The company has built over 30 social media ecosystems for many of the largest media companies in the world. Jumpwire clients include: Starz, Yahoo, Virgin Radio, BBC, Toronto Star, Bell (Astral), etc. View Guest page

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Tom McGrath

Founder/Chief Sustainability Officer at LABS Renewable Energy Tom is building waste-to-energy systems with zero emissions. Renewable energy was in Tom’s sights when he was a student at Cornell University. While pursuing his Anthropology degree, he was active in ENSOL, a solar energy collective. Graduate level course work in ethnographic filming and film production paved the way for his initial career path as a filmmaker. Tom apprenticed in Florence, Italy where he developed a passion for lighting with a lean visual style. Back in the US, he moved up the ranks behind the camera on major feature films, TV shows, documentaries, music videos and enjoyed a successful career creating commercials for Toyota, Sprite, Fox Sports, American Express, Pizza Hut, Chevy, Verizon, Nike and Dunkin Donuts. Over the past several years, Tom has returned to his renewable energy roots to focus on Clean Technologies and Resource Recovery Systems.
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Scott McKain

Scott McKain - teaches businesses how to deliver the “Ultimate Customer Experience”.
Scott is one of about 150 living members of the Professional Speakers Hall of Fame. Recognised by Social Media Marketing Magazine as one of the 50 most influential marketing authors on Twitter and GlenJuice.
Chosen by Arnold Schwarzenegger to be the emcee and speaker for The Great American Workout, held on the White House lawn with the President, and carried live on CNN and NBC’S “Today” show.
Author of “Collapse and Distinction” How to create differentiation in the marketplace. No 1 spot on Amazon.com’s list of business bestsellers.
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Brooke McKenzie

Brooke McKenzie A man who calls a spade a spade.
He calls himself a “Free Enterprise Socialist”. For over 40 years he has been self employed within the Entrepreneurial spheres from shipping, property development and gold mining to fighting oil well fires in Kuwait to hunting for sunken treasures in sub Antarctic waters. He has been involved in politics at a grass roots level and co-founded the New Zealand First Political Party in 1993
In this interview Brooke talks candidly in his own ‘nothing barred’ style about the recovery effort after the devastation of the massive New Zealand Earthquakes in 2011. View Guest page

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Dave McLauchlan

Dave McLauchlan is CEO and co-founder of Buddy Platform, one of the world’s first data aggregation and management platforms for Internet of Things and connected devices. Prior to founding Buddy, David spent 11 years at Microsoft, where he led business development for Microsoft’s Zune hardware business, and spent many years in Microsoft’s Windows division.
David is the co-founder of TVinteract, which developed software for on-air TV talent to curate and display social media in real-time and was acquired in 2014. He also has served as a Technology Partner Network advisor for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and currently serves as a mentor for the Australian incubator “Innovyz START”. He is also advisor to Washington DC-based “Manalto” and Melbourne-based “Bluedot Innovation.” View Guest page

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Rowdy McLean

He has played professional sport, run marathons and climbed mountains. At 24 he started his own company, and retired 10 years later. As a CEO he has engineered company turnarounds and now runs 5 companies of his own. Rowdy has seen great ideas, visions, dreams and strategies get swallowed up by the busy world we live in. Do we take on too much? Are our goals too big? Or, is there a different story?
He works with organisations across the globe, to get them from where they are, to where they want to be. Thousands of people attend his seminars each year. He is the author of several books including the internationally acclaimed “Play a Bigger Game”.
Rowdy loves the game of business and life and has spent years researching the key drivers of success, achievement and outstanding results, and he knows what works.
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STEPHEN MEADE

STEPHEN MEADE is an American entrepreneur, executive and strategic adviser who is passionate about growing companies that make a difference in the world. In the past 20 years, he has created, incubated and driven 9 successful technology-based companies.
One of Stephen's ideas that I love is having a tremendous environmental impact by saving a targeted 20 Billion Gallons of water per year, and educating millions of children about water conservation.
Chairman at BigBamboo, a holding company which incubates start-up companies from innovative idea to market-ready, then he raises the capital necessary to help bring the idea to market. A frequent participant/speaker/panelist at the Clinton Global Initiative. Author of three books in the field of finance/credit improvement and business networking, and is a guest lecturer at universities across the country.
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Andy Seymour & Michael Potter

Today we have two guests, Andy Seymour who has a comprehensive 35-year career in Media, Arts and Entertainment, hosting television shows both in Australia & the U.S. Mike Potter has programmed solutions for major international organizations, created an Aircraft booking system, and solutions for businesses in Australia, Asia, the US and UK. As I mentioned, 88% of consumers take note of reviews! Not only is your business’s performance on show for billions of people around the world to see... so too are your competitors reviews! So, businesses can no longer afford to ignore the voice of public opinion. Andy and Mike have created Better Reviews, which is a series of simple and flexible services that helps your customers to deliver legitimate 4 and 5 star reviews to the world’s leading review platforms, while diverting reviews of 3 stars or less back to you
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Frank Miles

Frank Miles - Speaker, entertainer using comedy, juggling, music and magic. Blew away the judges just recently on America's Got Talent.

He began his career by busking at Fisherman's Wharf, After a major hang gliding accident, Frank died and was revived in the emergency room. …. And now works with the love of his life Jackie rehabilitating orphaned and injured animals at the Valley Wildlife Care.

As some of you may know Frank Miles was also suspected of being Jack the Ripper. Frank is a very versatile guy but I respect that that might have been a namesake.
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Herb Mitschele

Herb Mitschele leads the charge to introduce and deliver Shodogg's innovative solutions within the business community. Shodogg's patented technology and platform creates instant connections between content and people by allowing users to access digital content stored in the cloud with any mobile device and direct that to any number of web-enabled screens, simultaneously, without boxes, wires or dongles (making it different from Apple Airplay or Google Chromecast). Partners include HP and hospitality technology provider Quadriga Worldwide. Prior to Shodogg, Herb was a senior executive in the consumer products and toy industry.
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Stephen Monaco

Stephen Monaco - A great guy with more degrees than a thermometer. He was UP sales and Marketing at Datastorm Technologies and the driving force behind the most successful PC Date Communications Software of all time. He has worked with the Who’s Who of Silicon Valley corporations, a company director, magazine columnist and has appeared on numerous TV shows. But what I like most about Stephen
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Barry Monies

Barry Moniês currently serves as President and CEO of Computronix, LLC a full service technology solutions company that designs, implements and manages data networks and communications infrastructures for small to medium sized businesses in the medical, financial and legal industries.
Barry started and ran several successful companies. As a consummate entrepreneur, over the years he operated various businesses including an exotic automotive sales and repair business, a daytrading & stock advisory service, a commercial real estate investment firm, an international importing business and several Internet based businesses. Barry started a technology consulting firm in 1992 providing technology consulting to a wide variety of corporate clients and in 1997 Computronix was born. Computronix has become one of the forefront technology solutions companies and in 2000, he spun off Computronix' security division as a separate incorporated entity.
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Kim Mordarnt

Kim Mordarnt who apart from being the wonderfully talented writer of the new film “The Rocket”, is one of the nicest, most down to earth guys that you would ever meet in the entertainment business. There is some real Oscar buzz about the movie in the foreign film category.
Kim has been frantically busy since he has been in Hollywood because the powers that be are taking notice and Red Lamp Films, the production company that Kim founded with producer/writer Sylvia Wilczynski have two fiction features in development, both written by Kim. But don't just take my word for it, The Rocket has won 3 major awards at the Berlin international film Festival, as well as winning best feature, best actor and the audience award at the Tribeca international film Festival. It has also won awards in the Netherlands, India, the Ukraine, Taiwan, Italy, Canada, England, Kosovo, Denmark, and Australia. I have to tell you ‘The Rocket’ is a really great movie.
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Sam Morris

My guest today is an extraordinary entrepreneur who I have got to know and respect enormously. A warmer, more friendly, and more inspirational guy you would never meet, always there to help people. Sam Morris is the founder of Zen Warrior Training. In 1999, just after leading a bicycling trip for nine teenagers across the United States, Sam was in a car accident caused by a drunk driver which left him paralyzed from the waist down. Rather than becoming the victim of his circumstances, Sam learned and created a system of mental and physical training that brought him more vitality and clarity than he had before his injury. In addition to coaching private clients and businesses in Zen Warrior Training, Sam teaches classes in Santa Monica, CA, does executive keynote presentations, Zen Warrior Training youth programs, and workshops throughout the country. View Guest page

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Dr. Sheila Murray Bethel

Sheila has an extraordinary track record, having spoken to over 2 million company executives in over 20 countries in 3,000 presentations. Sheila is renown for providing real world solutions for real world issues.
Sheila doesn't only talk the talk, she walks the walk having built three successful companies in the fields of healthcare, training and development and financial services. She has published five books and has been featured in newspapers and magazines across the world. She has worked on special projects with four US presidents, including working with the Bush White House in 1990. She has also worked with Governors, members of Congress, the Justice Department and the military.
Sheila Murray Bethel really knows what it takes to make a company successful in this rapidly changing environment
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Corky Newcomb

Corky Newcomb has a very unique profession to say the least. He creates, packages and markets inventions, having enjoyed great success with over 40 of his own inventions and eight unique products invented by others. Corky came to my attention through his seminars “how to turn your inventions into gold”. Corky’s Nite Lite golf ball has sold over $25 million at wholesale. So all of you out there listening to this program who have seen flying saucers whizzing around in the sky are simply seeing Corky’s Nite Lite golf balls.
Corky graduated from the University of New Hampshire’s whittlemore School of business and his philosophy is ‘go at full speed because you never know whether you will be given two innings or nine” My philosophy exactly. Corky also went on to become the president of Burger King.
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Ben Newman

A distinguished author, international speaker and coach.
In the financial services industry, Ben serves as Chief Inspirational Officer for a Top 10 Office of one of the elite Fortune 100 Financial Firms in the United States. He has also qualified for the Million Dollar Round Table every year and ranks in the top 1% of Wealth Management Professionals in the world. Additionally, Ben was recognized by St. Louis Magazine as a Wealth Manager of the Year in 2008 and 2009. Ben is a 4-time author and his latest book, Own YOUR Success: The Power to Choose Greatness and Make Everyday Victorious is a #1 Business Best-Seller and was selected by CEO Read as the #13 best-seller for its “Top 25 Business Books of 2012” for “What Corporate America is Reading.”. He is also the author of Fight the Good Fight, Pocket Truths for Success & Pocket Principles for the Insurance Business.
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William Nobrega

William Nobrega, Founder, CQS International. William is the founder with The Conrad Group, a global professional-services firm that is the recognized leader in emerging market investment advisory services. He recently founded CQS International, an emerging-market, focused, Internet-based, E-Insurance Company that will become the largest E-Insurance company globally. William is a noted thought leader who has dedicated the past two decades to authoring numerous publications, providing highly valued strategic counsel and successfully initiating global business models in emerging geographies including Brazil, India and China. His book, Riding the Indian Tiger; Understanding India the World’s Fastest Growing Market, was published by John Wiley & Sons in January 2008. Prior to establishing The Conrad Group and CQS Int’l., William worked with Deloitte & Touché Consulting healthcare practice group in Europe and the United States. View Guest page

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Cathy O'Dowd

I spoke to my Cathy in Andorra which, if you don't know, is a wonderful little municipality in the Pyrenees. Cathy is the first woman to climb Mount Everest from both sides and is an infatigable adventurer.
She has just returned from Pakistan where she took a new route to climb Nanga Parbat, which is the ninth highest peak in the world. The path she took was one of the few challenges remaining in the high Himalayas.
She is also a great speaker focusing on team dynamics and leadership as well as stress management, and I can imagine that it is fairly stressful when you are halfway up Mount Everest with a few thousand feet drop below you. Not only would it be stressful but there is likely a great deal of tension between team members.
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Eva Orner

Eva Orner is tall and slim and looks like the girl next door but is actually gutsy, feisty and confident enough to spend many months in the middle of war-torn Afghanistan to direct this documentary. And she didn't have helmets and flak jackets and submachine guns, Eva had a camera. To make matters worse from the Afghan perspective, she is very much a woman, in a country where women in any profession are an extremely endangered species. To sum her up in male parlance this girl is ballsy. Let me tell you a little about Eva. She is an Australian film producer and director based in Los Angeles. Apart from her Academy award for Taxi to the Darkside, her works include the multi-award-winning Untold Desires, Strange Fits of Passion which was nominated for the critics awarded the Cannes Film Festival and Gonzo, The Life And Work Of Dr. Hunter S Thompson”. Eva is one highly talented lady. View Guest page

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Scott Page

As an entrepreneur, Scott Page formed Walt Tucker Productions, an audio video post production company in 1987. In 1992, he Co-founded 7th Level, Inc., a CD-ROM game and educational software company. Later, he Co-founded New Media Broadcasting Company, a social media and collaborative communications enterprise. Since 2011, he has been the Co-founder and CEO of Direct2Care, an online presence management company for healthcare. Oh, and incidentally Scott Page is most recognized for being a member of Pink Floyd, Supertramp and Toto, three of the biggest bands in the history of music. However, in my mind Scott has one even much more important credit in his resume - that of a tireless worker for a range of charities, raising millions of dollars. If more people emulated Scott, the world would be a much better place.
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Jay Parker

Jay Parker is Vice President for the Live Events sales organization at Daktronics. He has a great gig, directing Daktronics’ sales organization in the United States and Canada for customers in professional sports, colleges and universities, city-owned stadiums and arenas, and rental and staging markets. This is a great story. Jay originally joined Daktronics as a Purchasing intern in 1987, and by 1997 he was in the Major League Sports Market, in 2007, he became the National Sales Manager for the Large Sports Venues sales organization. In 2011, He took over responsibility for the Mobile and Modular sales division. So I suspect he spends his life going to great sports events and concerts
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Bob Peirce

Bob Peirce co-founded BritWeek while serving as British Consul General in Los Angeles from 2005 until 2009. He retired from government work in 2009, after 32 years as a diplomat, and now works with a number of start-up companies in Los Angeles and elsewhere, and sits on non-profit boards including the Education Development Center and the Churchill Center.

Bob's diplomatic posts included China and Hong Kong, Uganda, the United Nations in New York and the British Embassy in Washington DC. Between 1980 and 1997 he was a key negotiator in the talks leading to Hong Kong's handover to China. Bob played a key role in the Northern Ireland peace process and drafted the 1999 report, which formed the basis of policing reforms in Northern Ireland. That report has been hailed by policing experts around the world as a seminal document for policing in a democratic society and a template for policing in divided societies.
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Kirk Pengilly

KIRK PENGILLY A few weeks ago I had a chat on this program with a long time friend of mine, 7 times world surfing champion Layne Beachley, which received a great response from our listeners. At the time I mentioned that Layne was married to Kirk Pengilly, quitarist, saxophonist and back up vocalist for the legendary Rock Band INXS. INXS have been into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame, have sold in excess of 30 million records, have 3 Grammy nominations and Kirk has been with the band for 32 years. He is just back from a European tour.
The legendary rock star has cooked for legendary chef Matt Moran, but how did he feel about going up in front of the MasterChef judges? The INXS lynchpin, may have stood on stage with the faces of 100,000 fans staring back at him, but it's Celebrity MasterChef that had the rockstar quivering in his boots. Kirk won the Master Chef challenge in 2009. View Guest page

Russell Phelps

Russell Phelps is a master copy writer and marketing maven, with more than 600 completed projects for clients both for Fortune 500 companies and many smaller businesses and entrepreneurs.
Russels work includes Online, Offline. He will deliver any message in any medium. He targets mass media or niche markets. He has created content and sales copy for websites, landing pages, email campaigns, publicity campaigns and traffic generation campaigns for websites.
His slogan is “I write the words that make the whole world buy...”
His clients become raving fans and typically report 40% to 300% increases in their results using his “killer ad copy” and powerful marketing strategies View Guest page

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Kerri Pottharst

Kerri Pottharst is a triple Olympian with two Olympic medals, Kerri spent 22 years competing in indoor and beach volleyball .
Since retiring in 2005, Kerri divides her time between her three passions – her family, coaching elite-level volleyball, and inspiring people from all walks of life to achieve excellence through her keynote presentations and motivational workshops.
Kerri is the Author of “The Business of being an Athlete”.
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Phil Poulson

Phil Poulson of our time:- Ziglar, Rohn, Peal, Waitley, Chopra, Dyer and more. He was an innovator of the Public Seminar and has developed a world recognized systemized sales process used by many of the world’s top sales people. Poulson is simply a master at his game. His book ‘Sales Drive’ sets the industry standard.
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Jamey Power

Jamey is a former Senior Vice President and Strategic Advisor at J.D. Power and Associates. While Jamey grew up with the company since his early school years, after college he went to work for Foote, Cone and Belding, then worked for Chevrolet before joining the family business as Snr Vice President and Strategic Advisor. He facilitated the transition of JD Power from a private business to becoming part of The McGraw Hill Companies. Today he advises organizations globally on quality, customer service, and marketing, giving speeches, and devoting a lot of time to the family’s philanthropic interests, particularly the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. . He is assisting his father on a new book chronicling his 50 years in the automobile business. This book is Power: How J.D. Power III Became the Auto Industry’s Adviser, Confessor, and Eyewitness to History (to be published by Fenwick Publishing, Spring 2013). View Guest page

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Rick Price

Rick Price - a singer/songwriter in Nashville, collaborating and recording on the way to becoming a major recording star. Learn how today’s music market has changed, and what you need to do to make it.
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Hunter Pritchard

Hunter is in the final year of a Bachelor of Business Administration , Marketing and Finance at George Washington University and a Certificate of Entrepreneurship at Georgetown University, both in Washington DC. He was also one of thirty students selected from around the world to attend the inaugural entrepreneur program at the Draper University in Silicon Valley.
Hunter has interned at Deloitte Consulting in Washington DC, at Ceuta Healthcare in the UK, at Business Rockstars on the CBS Radio Network as well as working at Capitol Advertising and Social Driver Digital Agency.
In this interview we discuss the young entrepreneurs views of social media, legacy companies, the future of traditional media, social responsibility and role models among other topics.
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Darryl Purpose

Exactly how many musicians can start out their story with, “I left home as a teenager and became a professional gambler.”? There really is only one…. Darryl Purpose.
He is one of the world’s best Blackjack players and is in the Blackjack Hall of Fame but it also lead him to be an internationally recognized singer and songwriter, racking up thousands of miles for the sake of his music. His 7th and newest recording is entitled “Still the Birds” has just been released.
Darryl played with Santana and Bonnie Raitt at the first ever outdoor stadium concert in the former Soviet Union, and co-founding The Second Strings Project, an organization that has delivered over 20,000 sets of strings to musicians around the world. In addition Darryl has been chased around Moscow by the Russian mafia, threatened in Seoul by the Yakuza, and walked across the United States for peace”. View Guest page

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Jay Rankin

After careers such as a police officer and a professional counselor, Jay became a doorman at the MGM Hotel in Las Vegas. Jay wrote “Under The Neon Sky” and expose of the horror behaviors of Casino employees, guests and management. It is a sad expose of the underbelly of one of the most glamorous cities in the world.
Las Vegas is a city of temptation — anyone can fall prey to it…even the guy who greets you at the door - Jay Rankin
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Freddie Ravel

Freddie Ravel is a Grammy nominated music producer, a composer and musician and began his career performing worldwide with Sergio Mendes when he was only 23 years old. Since then Freddie has worked with people including Al Jarreau, Madonna, Prince, Quincy Jones, Stevie Wonder, the Boston Pops and Earth Wind and Fire. Okay, so the guys a superstar, up there with all the greats. But there's a lot more to this guy. With enthusiastic endorsements from colleagues like Deepak Chopra and the legendary Jack Canfield and organizations such as Apple, NASA, and dozens more, Freddie absolutely mesmerizes corporate audiences with a brilliant presentation that relates music to business emphasized by a bit of rock 'n roll. Freddie is true edutainment. Freddie reveals music as the perfect metaphor for the dynamics of change, collaboration and success.
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Joe Resnick

Dr. Joseph A. Resnick leads major international projects in China, South America, Europe and the USA for RMANNCO, Inc. He earned the Doctor of Philosophy Degree from the Union Institute and University based on his research and collaboration with NASA to develop new environmentally-friendly products to cleanup oil spills. That work led to development and commercialization of an arsenal of eco-friendly sustainable oil spill cleanup products, resulting in his induction into NASA’s Spinoff Hall of Fame in 1996. After a fifteen-year stint as Chief Scientist for a multi-national company involved with large-scale bioremediation projects, he decided to return to academia and continue his research.
Dr. Resnick was nominated by Colleagues in 2013 and 2014 for consideration for both the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement and was short-listed as a Semi-Finalist for the St Andrews Prize for the Environment. View Guest page

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Patrick Rettig

For over 25 years Patrick Rettig has successfully saved companies from bankruptcy. He is passionate about helping the American entrepreneur, primarily the companies $20 million and under, who are the backbone of this country. Patrick says it's all about the CEO. When a company gets in trouble, he goes directly to the CEO. He believes that if the CEO can get back on track, then the rest of the company will get back on track as well. Patricks instincts are hyper-keen. His approach is direct, honest and pragmatic. He has a talent for identifying operational problems, structuring, implementing solutions and restructuring staff. Accordingly. he ensures maximum productivity and efficient financial management. His experience includes companies of all ages: start-ups, turnarounds and restructured environments.
If you are struggling financially, Patrick can be your best ally
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Eric Rice

Todays guest Eric Rice has been a serial entrepreneur for more than 10 years. He currently serves as the founder and CEO of TrepScore, a Data-Driven Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Network designed to help entrepreneurs cut through the noise of data-overload and proactively provide actionable information at the exact right moment. TrepScore has been revered by some of the top entrepreneur authorities and large corporations as one of the most innovative solutions of the new year. Prior to starting TrepScore, Eric founded, invested in or advised more than 30 startups in fields ranging from alternative financial services to software to live action gaming. His wide ranging industry knowledge makes him a highly valued partner to many of the top entrepreneurs in Southern California. Eric’s favorite quote is, "Only the man who can see the invisible can achieve the impossible"
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Craig Rispin

Craig Rispin is a Business Futurist and Innovation Expert. HIS expertise is in forecasting emerging business, people and technology trends – and then determining how companies can profit from them. Craig has over 20 years experience working where the future is being created – with some of the most innovative companies in the world in the IT, consumer electronics, internet and broadcasting industries.
Craig has consulted with CEOs of leading companies worldwide including BHP Billiton, Canon, IBM, Kimberly-Clark, Symantec, Toyota, Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) and hundreds of professional industry associations.
He is an award-winning speaker and has addressed audiences on 5 continents. Craig shows his clients how to: Know First, Be First and Profit First.
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Jessica Rose

Today, we are speaking with Jessica Rose who came up with the fantastic idea WeRehearse, which is a video chat built specifically for actors. If you are an actor, WeRehearse helps you to connect with other actors to learn lines and run through your scripts with easy sharing of sides right in the video window.
Jessica Rose smashed into the consciousness of a global audience way back in 2006 as the star of ‘LonelyGirl15’ on internet radio . Millions followed this groundbreaking series as the internet and real world media discussed the blurring of fiction and reality. Jessica became YouTube royalty and won countless awards including the 2007 Webby award for best actress and Forbes magazine ‘Number ONE web celebrity’.
Jessica attracted a small dedicated team that shared her vision, and from the initial idea to a working technology that has now culminated in an official launch of a product that will enable millions around the globe to improve their talent.
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Scott Ross

Scott has been one of the most notable pioneers in digital media and entertainment. Along with James Cameron and Stan Winston he founded Digital Domain, one of the largest digital production studios in the motion picture and advertising industries. Digital Domain scored its first Academy award for the groundbreaking visual effects in Titanic, this was followed by a second Oscar for What Dreams May Come and then a third, for the Curious Case of Benjamin Button. This is only the tip of the iceberg. You are judged by the company you keep, well how about this, Scott has worked with Spielberg, Cameron, Howard, Scorsese, Coppola, the Cohen, brothers, Peter Jackson and more.
Before this is an amazing success, Scott led George Lucas vast entertainment empire running ILM, Skywalker sound, Lucasfilm commercial production and Droid works. Under his leadership at ILM, they 15 Academy Awards for best visual effects. View Guest page

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Christian Roszenich

When Thomas Friedman wrote ‘The World is Flat’ in 2007, he had our next guest Christian Roszenich in mind. Christian from Vienna, Austria, studied in London and has international experience as a telecommunications, media and Internet start-up consultant. He was vice president at WorldRes, where he successfully implemented IT product strategies. All of this experience laid the groundwork for his most successful venture, ClickWorker which was launched in 2008, and really links the world together. ClickWorker proves the reality of Thomas Friedman’s book which suggests that the greatest efficiencies in business are realized by utilizing the most productive resources in in different countries and time zones. ClickWorker crowdsources micro tasks, manages and quality controls them and delivers them in less time and at a lower cost than corporations are able to facilitate on their own.With the rapid growth of the shared economy, ClickWorker appears to be the right product at the right time.
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Alex Rowland

Alex Rowland serves as CEO at Ampdesk. He is the former founder and CEO of CozmoTV, a leading B2B provider of syndicated video players and platforms. Alex has spent the last 15 years building Internet companies in a variety of industries and has spent the last 8 years deeply involved in the digital video market. Prior to CozmoTV, he was founder and CEO of USPowerSolutions Corp. (USPS). Prior to USPS, Alex founded a consulting business called ICSolutions that provided Intranet development services to small-cap enterprises. View Guest page

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Kari Thor Runarsson

CEO & Co-founder of Authenteq Authenteq is a networked automatic identity verification platform. With Authenteq IDs, users experience increased trust and transparency on P2P marketplaces and communities. With a verified identity, online users become accountable for their actions leading to a better user experience for everyone on the marketplace.
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Ken Rutkowski

I had the great fortune to be introduced to METal, the acronym for Media, Entertainment, Technology, alpha leaders, which comprises the top 1600 people across these fields. I first met Ken Rutkowski, the founder and host of this incredible four hour networking event featuring amazing guest speakers every single week. I'm not exaggerating when I say that METal has changed my life. Driving METal is an extraordinary achievement in itself but that is just the tip of the Ken Rutkowski juggernaut. Ken is a strategizer, advisor, confidant and mentor to many of the world’s leading technology business leaders, venture capitalists and investors, as well as being the host of what is the best and most influential business radio show in the world. Business Rockstars on the CBS radio network airs five days a week on over 140 radio stations across America to an audience of over 1 million business people. Ken has also interviewed an extraordinary 2800 of America's top business talent. View Guest page

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Eddie Salcedo

Eddie Salcedo is the managing director and co-founder of 11 sports media. Prior to this Eddie spent seven years with AEG which is one of the biggest sports and entertainment groups in the world with over 100 of the industries top auditoriums and facilities, stage an incredible 6200 events a year and host 55 sports teams worldwide. He is a specialist in event development, event management and sponsorship sales.
He Eddie worked at ISL which is FIFA's marketing agency. He is an unassuming guy, who really knows his stuff.
What he is involved with now is very farsighted and very exciting. In partnership with 7 sports in has set up eHabla Futbol, which intends to be the umbrella group for all of the Hispanic soccer leagues and teams across America. With 51 million Hispanics in the US, growing at three times the rate of the overall population with a buying power of over $1 trillion this is one incredibly powerful constituency.
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Jay Samit

Jay Pioneered the first video on computers, the first Internet auction, digital distribution of music, ebooks, and group video chat on mobile devices. Jay has raised hundreds of millions of dollars for startups, sold companies to Fortune 500 firms, and taken companies public. Presently host of the documentary series Wall Street Journal Startup of the Year and the industry’s 2014 Mobile Ambassador. Jays "sweet spot" is disrupting industries with digital innovation. His most recent venture, Realty Mogul, is transforming the $11 trillion US commercial real estate market by bringing transparency and deal flow to the average investor. In their first year they have crowdfunded over $100 million in cash-flowing commercial real estate. His last company ooVoo, with 100 million registered users, was named the 2012 Venture Company of the Year and his video chat app was named best app technology in 2013.
Jay has a CV that goes on and on and on
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David Saxby

My interview today is with David Saxby who is a catalyst to innovation for clients across the globe. As a marketing communications consultant, and an entrepreneur, for over 30 years, David delivers practical, thought-provoking, solutions that drive individuals and teams to become better at adapting, creating and innovating…achieving unparalleled success. David has built 7 companies from start up and led several of them through major recessions. Today he is driving force behind Spark Communications and 3 other business ventures. Companies rely on David when they need to improve productivity and communications. David has worked with a wide range of industries including: IT, telecommunications, land development and real estate, construction service and supply, energy, transportation, manufacturing, professional services and small business. View Guest page

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Pam Scannell

My guest Pam Scannell is executive director of the Big Bear Chamber of Commerce. The great thing about Chambers of Commerce is that they give a forum for all local businesses to exchange information, to listen to speakers talking about the changes to managing businesses, sales training, new technology and so on. It provides mentors for new businesses to the area, it enables members to network, solicit new customers within the chamber and learn from the best practices of other members. One of the most important attributes of a successful business today is that they give back to the community and Chambers of Commerce lead that charge in their cities. So Chambers of Commerce are extremely important. The Big Bear Chamber of Commerce was formed in 1920, almost 100 years ago and became official in 1947. Since then they have done a tremendous amount of work with local businesses and have achieved an extraordinary amount for charities and the local area. View Guest page

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Mark Schulman

In the mid-1990s, Mark Schulman was the drummer for the band Simple Minds and has since played with Foreigner, Sheryl Crow, Stevie Nicks, Destiny's Child, Billy Idol and is playing world tours with Cher and Pink. He is also a music producer, audio engineer and co-owner of West Triad Recording Studios in Venice, California. He is the recipient of numerous Gold and Platinum discs and has appeared on nearly every American and European variety show on television including The Grammys, David Letterman, The Tonight Show, Conan O’Brian, Jon Stewart, American Idol, X-Factor and many more. Mark’s writing and production credits include films, various international TV shows and commercials, radio jingles and interactive media projects for clients such as: Mcdonald’s, Sony, The Disney Channel, , Showtime, USA network, The Sopranos, School of Rock, and Beverly Hills Cop 3. View Guest page

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Mark Schulman

Todays guest is a superstar and ticks all of those boxes. Added to that, he is one hell of a good guy.
In the mid-1990s, Mark Schulman was the drummer for the band Simple Minds and has since played with Foreigner, Sheryl Crow, Stevie Nicks, Destiny's Child, Billy Idol and is playing world tours with Cher and Pink. He is also a music producer, audio engineer and co-owner of West Triad Recording Studios in Venice, California. He is the recipient of numerous Gold and Platinum discs and has appeared on nearly every American and European variety show on television including The Grammys, David Letterman, The Tonight Show, Conan O’Brian, Jon Stewart, American Idol, X-Factor and many more. Mark’s writing and production credits include films, various international TV shows and commercials, radio jingles and interactive media projects for clients such as: Mcdonald’s, Sony, The Disney Channel, , Showtime, USA network, The Sopranos, School of Rock, and Beverly Hills Cop 3. View Guest page

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Yoav Schwatz

Yoav Schwatz the founder and CEO at Uberflip, responsible for driving the mission, vision, and goals of the company. Okay, I can hear you all saying, I know what Uber is, its that really cool car company that it has disrupted the taxi and deliver industry, but what the hell is Uberflip. Their website says it is “Content With A Pulse” The tools and insights you need to create a killer content Hub that converts visitors into leads, and leads into customers.
He is a huge believer in providing a fantastic customer experience and this is a major focus of his team. Yoav has accumulated a wealth of experience working in multiple businesses with focuses in marketing, design and product development. In addition, to his daily leadership role at Uberflip, Yoav serves as an advisor to Betterez another technology start-up.
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Paul Scott

Paul Scott is a lifelong environmental advocate, he co-founded Plug In America in 2005 to galvanize support and advocate for the manufacture of Electric Vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrids that reduce America’s dependence on petroleum, boost America's economy, and improve the global environment. Paul helped create DontCrush.com, Plug In America’s predecessor, a grassroots group that single-handedly prevented some 1,000 production EVs from being destroyed by the auto companies that manufactured them. He is among the key figures featured in “Who Killed the Electric Car?” the 2006 documentary distributed by Sony Pictures Classics, and he consulted for the follow up, "Revenge of the Electric Car." Paul owned a 2002 Toyota RAV4 EV for eight years, which he drove on sunshine generated by the photovoltaic panels on his home. He now owns a 2012 Nissan LEAF and a Zero electric motorcycle. View Guest page

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Dan Shyti

Dan Shyti, a leadership advisor and trainer, an author, speaker, and mentor. He is the founder and president of 4 Power Leadership, which is a company dedicated to leadership training for corporate and government clients. Dan provides seminars, keynote presentations, executive coaching, and public speaking training. I think most of us who have been in business for a long time often lament at the lack of leadership skills in corporate America particularly at the middle management level. In the last 20 years Dan has held many senior management positions in corporations, including being a Vice President at L-3, a major technology and defense company, and has seen too many entry level supervisors being thrust into their first leadership position without any leadership training, so he developed his training program and then followed that up with his best-selling book, 4 Power Leadership: Your Pathway to Leadership Success. View Guest page

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Eric Sinoway

As 2013 begins, Americans face a job market with no clear path to career success. College students can’t find entry –level positions, and so accept internships, temporary work, and freelance “gigs”. Mid-career employees work overtime, are stuck in place, laid-off or restructured, and no longer count on careers at one company. Entrepreneurs find it challenging to raise capital to start businesses, struggle with new regulations, and must sacrifice their home lives in order to achieve their dreams.
For all these job-and-career seekers, a new book offers savvy guidance and inspiring optimism. Written by entrepreneur Eric Sinoway, Howard’s Gift: Uncommon Wisdom to Inspire Your Life’s Work distills the wisdom of legendary Harvard Business School professor Howard Stevenson, who as teacher and mentor has inspired generations of graduates.
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Per Sjofers

Per Sjofers describes himself as a rainmaker. He makes things happen and he never gives up. He also tells it exactly the way it is. He has built a number of successful, and very profitable, sales and marketing companies in Europe and in the US. Per conceptualized and developed the consulting service Atenga which has helped turn over 100 businesses. He has helped companies double their growth rates, and in the process sometimes even doubling or tripling revenues, doubling gross margins and in the process, quadrupling shareholder value.
Per has been frequently quoted in the financial press, including in Fortune Magazine, Inc, Industry Week and the Financial Times. View Guest page

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Mike Southon

Mike Southon a serially successful entrepreneur, mentor, best-selling business author and a Financial Mail columnist in the Mail on Sunday
Mike built and sold his own company in the 80s and worked with seventeen different start-ups in the 90s. Two of these companies later went public, while three went broke!
Mike is co-author of several best-selling business books, including The Beermat Entrepreneur and Sales on a Beermat.
He is also a very experienced entrepreneur mentor, having provided face-to-face mentoring for over 1,000 people in the last 10 years.
Mike is proud to be Ambassador for the Federation of Small Businesses and Entrepreneur in Residence for the City of Liverpool.
Mike is one of the most experienced business speakers in the world, speaking at 100 events every year, for the last 10 years. Mike's keynote presentations explain how to be enterprising, whether you are starting a new business or work in a large organisation.
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Stephan Spencer

Stephan is an internationally recognized SEO expert and bestselling author. He is the co-author of The Art of SEO, author of Google Power Search and co-author of Social eCommerce, all published by O’Reilly.
Stephan founded Netconcepts in 1995 and grew it into a multi-national SEO agency before selling it in 2010 to Covario. Stephan invented the SEO technology GravityStream. He now works as a sought-after SEO and digital strategy consultant. His past clients include Zappos, Sony Store, Quiksilver, Bed Bath & Beyond, and Chanel. He has spoken at hundreds of marketing events including SES, SMX, PubCon, Internet Retailer, and Shop.org. He’s contributed to the Huffington Post, Multichannel Merchant, Practical Ecommerce, Search Engine Land, and DM News.
Stephan is the creator of Traffic Control, a 3-day SEO seminar, and co-creator of the 3-day professional development seminar Passions into Profits with Kris Jones. He hosts two podcasts, The Optimized Geek and Market
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Dayna Steele

Serial entrepreneur, author and business speaker, Dayna Steele travels the world to improve performance, create strong teams, increase company sales and grow businesses with her Rock Star Principles of Success. Dayna is the author of Rock to the Top: What I Learned about Success from the World's Greatest Rock Stars and her forthcoming book is 101 Ways to Rock Your World: Everyday Activities for Success Every Day.
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Candace Stewart

My guest today is Candace Stewart, an industry veteran with over 20 years experience in Recording Studio management. She has managed some of the top recording studios in the world. Candace has worked with artists in all genres of music from The Rolling Stones, Tom Petty, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Madonna, Ice Cube, and Snoop Dogg to film composers, Jerry Goldsmith and Paul Williams. In her tenure as a manager she has navigated these huge changes adroitly and she is now the manager at EastWest Studios, the world’s premier recording facility. Located in the heart of Hollywood, the studios have given rise to some of the most celebrated music of the last fifty years, from Frank Sinatra to The Rolling Stones, and has produced more Grammy-winning albums than any other studio in the world. View Guest page

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Robert Stock

Robert Stock started his extensive career in fashion design, when he met fellow fashion designer Ralph Lauren. Together they launched Ralph Lauren’s highly successful Chaps collection. He then went out on his own and created Country Roads by Robert Stock and became an award-winning fashion designer receiving a Coty Award for “Best American Sportswear Designer” and a prestigious Cutty Sark Award for “Leading American Men’s wear Designer.”

In 2000, Stock felt bored and uninspired by the garments that made up the men’s wear industry. He noticed there was a void in the market and quickly began developing a line that spoke to a niche in luxury men’s wear that craved pops of color and interesting, conversation-provoking pieces.

In 2001, Stock launched Robert Graham — a line consisting of men’s sport shirts with a look he coined “American Eclectic.” That year, luxury specialty store Fred Segal was one of Robert Graham’s first customers. His shirts are truly fabulous!
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Clayton Thomas

Clayton Thomas is the Chief Marketing-Sales Officer and Co-Founder of Metron Nutraceuticals, the manufacturer of the first and only process to hydrolyze a zeolite. What does that mean? I have no idea but Clayton is an environmental toxicology and systemic detoxification expert. Clayton Thomas has a unique approach to wellness and dealing with health and wellness in today’s environment so I thought it would be a great interview and we may all learn something about how to live better lives.
Clayton's philosophy is to “Cure the Cause” Don’t worry about the symptoms or the title you are given for your symptoms. With 38 years of experience around animal and human medicine and 10 years working specifically with environmental toxicology, detoxification and wellness; Clayton is a recognized expert in his field. His focus is to share his knowledge and experience to enhance the lives of as many humans and animals as possible. View Guest page

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Josh Tickell

Josh Tickell is a film director who specializes in connecting with the 15 to 35 year olds, the Millennial Generation. He captured national attention by driving “The Veggie Van,” a van powered by used French Fry oil, across the United States. This journey culminated in 2008 with the release of his first feature film, FUEL .
FUEL won the Sundance Audience Award for Best Documentary and was released theatrically in the United States. Josh then directed the Cannes Film Festival movie, The Big Fix in 2011, which is a wonderful movie about the cause of the BP spill in the Gulf and the real devastation it caused. His latest theatrical documentary PUMP (2014) exposes a conspiracy to block fuel choice at the gas pump. Josh also founded The Big Picture Ranch (BPR) with his wife and business partner, Rebecca Harrell Tickell. BPR serves as “California’s #1 Organic Ranch Film Studio. With state of the art film production facilities and two Cinemas.
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Gordon Tredgold

My guest Gordon Tredgold has worked in Transformational Leadership roles for over 20 years, running $100m+ programs, leading $200m+Global Operations Departments, and implementing large complex Organizational Change programs for Fortune 100 companies. He inspires leaders to develop engaged teams with clear plans so they can revolutionize their results. He is passionate about identifying simple methodologies that are able to be quickly implemented, and that generate immediate benefits for people and companies. He is the authority on getting F.A.S.T. results Gordon's new book is called, guess what, Fast which discusses his revolutionary approach to leadership that simplifies exactly what you need to be successful. The "FAST" Principles are Focus-Accountability-Simplicity-Transparency. I find the book to be straightforward, pragmatic, and easy to follow, and challenges you to think differently about the way you approach your business, your leadership--- and your life. View Guest page

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Simon Treselyan

This is really one extraordinary guy. For 19 years he was a special forces commander with the British Secret Service specializing in undercover work and interrogation. He took on the bad guys in all the world's trouble spots including the Taliban. When he left the service, he began to write books and was in demand in the media across the world. It is his new book, The Order Of The Nefilim, that is causing quite a commotion. It is already a blockbuster bestseller, is being likened to a cross between the Da Vinci Code and the Bourne Identity and Simon is being called the new Dan Brown
But there's another side to Simon that I think is what makes him special. Despite being a big tough guy and having spent years in a tough, dirty, brutal business, the guys as soft as butter and has a giant heart. Simon has assembled a number of former special forces operatives who are focused on saving children from sex traffickers and people smugglers, particularly in Asia. He is one hell of a guy.
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Mike Tristano

I recently met an armorer, a fascinating guy who has a critical role in movies and in television. Mike is currently working on the new television series, “Stars Earn Stripes”, In fact, Mike Tristano is a legendary figure in industry. Mike is a former private sector special Ops advisor and he specializes in providing weaponry, special effects and militaria for the film industry. I love his business card, it simply says Mike Tristano, the gun guy.
Mike is the only true non-union supplier of movie weaponry and armourer services, historical and military props and make up effects for films and the major studios. After a shadowy career in military intelligence Mike entered the movie business and has probably trained and worked on the set with over half the actors and actresses in Hollywood.
He was also personal security consultant to Senator Al Gore when he ran for election.
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Ian Trousdell

Ian Trousdell lives in England but was originally from New Zealand, is highly educated and has been involved since 2003 in developing and energizing the Flowform brand worldwide. He has raised, through a lot of blood sweat and tears in excess of $1.5 million dollars in funding from 20 investors over seven years to get Flowform to the point where it is now a worldwide marketing and licensing company. The company is engaged in approximately 5000 projects in 50 countries.
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John Tschohl

My guest today is John Tschohl, called the “guru of customer service” by USA Today, Time and Entrepreneur Magazines. Author of six best selling books, an internationally recognized service strategist and president of the Service Quality Institute, the global leader in customer service.
For the last 31 years he has solely focused on helping organizations drive a service culture and create a customer experience through his technology built on practicality, simplicity and common sense. With his credibility and focus on empowerment and the power of the social media he has the ability to emotionally communicate the power of the service strategy from top executives to the total workforce.
John’s technology and books are in 11 languages, represented in over 45 countries, and 90 percent of the Service Quality Institute’s business is international.
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Jay Turo

Jay Turo has led Growthink's emergence as one of the nation's largest strategic advisory and investment banking firms focused on the entrepreneurial marketplace.
He has advised dozens of emerging, middle market, and corporate clients regarding their growth and capital formation strategies. His corporate clients have included Deutsche Bank, McKesson, Infospace, Samsung, Porsche, & Paramount Pictures. Jay is an active Angel investor, and speaker and writer regarding private equity, entrepreneurship, and technology. His column appears on the Growthink blog on Mondays
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Francis Della Vecchia

My Guest Francis Della Vecchia has worked at high levels of Operations and Strategy for numerous firms, startups, and for industries across the spectrum, from entertainment to politics, non-profit to tech.
Francis can prepare a company to roll out an app, attract the board of directors and investors for a film fund, or even build a celebrity poker team.
Francis is also Head of Operations at Isold Film and TV Fund where he has built a powerful team of entertainment and finance professionals to bring forth a brand new approach to film and television financing.
He also has a brilliant business, “Fix It Francis” which is a Start-Up Advisory designed to solve specific problems for businesses so they can more fully flourish, with an emphasis on start-ups and an understanding of the entrepreneur. View Guest page

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Nikki Vescovi

Nikki Vescovi is a powerful communication expert who shows how you can not only dramatically change your business, but also your life. Nikki has trained some of the most powerful people in the world to be effective communicators. Not surprisingly, Nikki is also a neuro linguistic programming trainer and Master practitioner. Although she is headquartered in Los Angeles, Nikki works with different corporate and international cultures around the world.
Now this is the bit I need to talk to her about, Nikki says that she learned to “master disaster” after her whole family was hit by a drunk driver, a plane crashed into her front room and a truck drove over the top of her car while she was in it. This is why I chose to do this interview over the phone, I didn't want to be in the same room with her just in case.
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Nikki Vescovi

Nikki Vescovi is a powerful communication expert who shows how you can not only dramatically change your business, but also your life. Nikki has trained some of the most powerful people in the world to be effective communicators. Not surprisingly, Nikki is also a neuro linguistic programming trainer and Master practitioner. Although she is headquartered in Los Angeles, Nikki works with different corporate and international cultures around the world.
Now this is the bit I need to talk to her about, Nikki says that she learned to “master disaster” after her whole family was hit by a drunk driver, a plane crashed into her front room and a truck drove over the top of her car while she was in it. This is why I chose to do this interview over the phone, I didn't want to be in the same room with her just in case. View Guest page

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Adrian Webster

My guest is Riot policeman, Milkman and salesman, just a few of the many entries on Adrian’s CV before he moved into the IT industry and discovered an ability to inspire people and deliver extraordinary results.
The son of a Yorkshire coal miner, Adrian has established himself as one of the most popular motivational speakers in Europe today. Adrian is a best-selling author and his polar bear Pirates books are going gangbusters worldwide. Now, despite a pretty low-key CV, my friends in the UK tell me that Adrian is a superstar and really gets phenomenal results. In fact, Adrian recently addressed business leaders alongside former Prime Minister Tony Blair at the Swiss Economic Forum. I'm looking forward to finding out what makes him tick. View Guest page

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Gregory Wendt

My guest today, Greg Wendt is a SoCal native and first discovered the notion of sustainable development in the late 80's. Since then Greg has been passionate about applying his considerable gifts in fields of economics, business and sustainable and responsible investing. Greg gained a wealth of expertise and experience at Smith Barney, Dabney/Reznick (now Imperial Capital), UBS, Prudential Securities and EP Wealth Advisors. Greg is now Senior Wealth Advisor heading the west coast effort of StakeHolders Capital, a boutique registered investment advisory firm specializing in Impact Investing and Wealth Management.
Greg is on the steering committee member of the California Economic Summit and co-chair the Capital Action Team and a member of California Financial Opportunities Roundtable, a select group of experts convened by the San Francisco Fed and the Obama Administration to increase Impact Investing in California.
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Alexander Westgarth

My guest today has a profession that is really quite different. In his time he has been a camera operator, a producer, and an editor for short films and documentaries for both TV and film. He has been a senior broker for nearly 10 years with upmarket wine companies in London, and of all things, has built a violin. So with all these skills to his bow, excuse the pun, what does Alexander do now? He founded a company called Westgarth Wine Investment Brokers who are located in both Los Angeles and in London. The very sophisticated Westgarth brochure says that wine is not just for the privileged few: but an ideal investment choice for everyday investors looking to diversify their portfolios. If you choose wine you’ll benefit from a proven market that is stable, relatively detached from the mainstream, and consistently shows double-digit returns. What’s more it goes on, wine offers you a great hedge against inflation.
I thought I'd get Alexander on the show to tell us how we can all get rich while enjoying a glass of red.
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Tod Whipple

Tod Whipple is a serial entrepreneur. Commercial Real Estate Expert. Technology Ninja and lover of all things Business. He continues to fuel his passion for startups through StartupAddict.com founded in 2007.
In a former life, Tod produced feature films, television and new media projects. He was a partner at Scout Productions a film/television and new media production company in Boston Massachusetts. Some of his credits include Queer Eye for the Straight Guy for Bravo/NBC, Session 9 for USA Films, and Deadman’s Curve for Trimark pictures to name a few.
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Thomas White

Thomas White is a co-founder and CEO of C-Suite Network, home of the world’s most powerful network of C-Suite leaders. Prior to C-Suite Network, White started 10 companies in the fields of technology, publishing, market research and corporate consulting. He also holds four patents and is co-author of a book on business process technology, executive producer of a syndicated radio program, and professional speaker. View Guest page

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Robert Whyte

My guest Robert Whyte is an entrepreneur’s investment banker. Having been an investment banker for some 24 years before starting his own company, funded by what is called EB-5. EB-5 is the Immigrant Investor Program, created by Congress in 1990 to stimulate the U.S. economy through job creation and capital investment by immigrant investors by creating a new commercial enterprise or investing in a troubled business. Essentially the program requires that the immigrant make a capital investment of $500,000 or $1,000,000 in a new commercial enterprise located within the United States. The new commercial enterprise must create or preserve 10 full-time jobs for qualifying U.S. workers within two years. Robert founded Good Time Beverages to bring the best premade "Cocktails to GO®" to the world in his patented FlexPouch™. His portal, EB5USADirect.com was founded from the financing of Good Time Beverages as a Direct EB-5 Investment. View Guest page

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Mairi Wickett

Mairi Wickett is the CEO of WITT Energy This remarkable piece of technology is called The Witt. Basically, The WITT is capable of collecting energy from natural occurring motional energy in water, be it sea river or tidal, from wind, or human/animal movement. It collects energy from chaotic movement in any direction and turns it into useable power. These units can be built from walnut size up to several metres in size. The Witt has won many prestigious awards. The Witt is a really big deal.
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Will Wiegler

Will Wiegler leads up the global marketing team for the TAS Group driving strategic marketing programs, branding and lead generation activities. Before joining the TAS group, Will was vice president of marketing at Bigmachines where he led the company's highly successful marketing programs and expansion of its customer base across a diverse mix of vertical markets. This boy knows what he's talking about and it's a pleasure to have him on the program. View Guest page

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Anne Wilson

Anne Wilson, graduate of the Stanford Executive Program for Non-Profit Leaders - past secretary of the International Federation of Kidney Foundations, and an expert in Cause Related Marketing.
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Jeff Winsper

JEFF WINSPER, is the President of Black Ink. He is a long-time marketing leader who developed a reporting suite based on software as a service, or in other words on demand software, which delivers the hard data that the C-Suite and marketing teams have been, or at least should have been, asking for. Jeff is also a member of the Marketing Accountability Standards Board (MASB) Advisory Council and recently spoke in Zurich at the Worldwide Partners Agency Forum about Marketing ROI. View Guest page

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Won – G

Won – G has used his business skills to build an entertainment, fashion and branding powerhouse called Real Sovage. He has had several singles and albums on the Billboards charts, with “Nothing Wrong” staying for 12 weeks on Billboard hip-hop singles sales and reaching number two on Billboard hot rap singles. He’s appeared on almost every television network and made his film debut in a scary movie Hack. So he is one hell of an accomplished artist.

Today the mark of a true superstar, is someone who gives back to the community. Won – G launched a stay in school tour performing and speaking to students in over 300 schools across the United States. He lends his support to a host of children’s causes, including being the international ambassador for autism. He also led a non-profit group of doctors into Haiti following the devastating earthquake.
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Jonathan Wygant

Big Speak, in Santa Barbara, California, is one of the world's leading full spectrum bureaus representing every major business speaker, thought leader, athlete and author on the planet. The president and founder of Big Speak, Jonathan Wygant, himself a member of the World Presidents Organisation, View Guest page

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Scott Yancey

As the co-founder and CEO of Cloudwords in 2013, Scott Yancey runs the premier cloud-based software company that has revolutionized how businesses manage their global communications and localization processes. Yancey developed Cloudwords's end-to-end Software as a Service platform to enable companies to deliver on demand content anywhere on the planet . This enables companies to respond to the market faster, slashing costs, complexity and the time associated with localization projects. Clients include the likes of Twitter, Shazam, Walmart, McDonalds, and Verisign.
Prior to founding Cloudwords, Scott was a key architect on the salesforce.com platform and applications, and his technical leadership and expertise helped grow salesforce.com from 2,000 customers to an industry titan with 77,000 customers and $1.5 billion in annual revenue.
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Tay Zonday

Tay Zonday People’s Choice Award-Nominated, YouTube Award-Winning, Webby Award-Winning singer-songwriter with more than 130 million video views on YouTube.
He blasted into the worldwide spotlight with his viral hit “Chocolate Rain” and has been interviewed on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Good Morning America, America’s Got Talent, CNN, MTV, The BBC, Comedy Central, Rachel Ray, Maury Povich, and a list to long to recite. He has been referenced in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, People Magazine, The Huffington Post, Mashable, Gawker, and by pop-culture touchstones such as "South Park," “Saturday Night Live,” "Robot Chicken," "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia," "Girlfriends" and "Guitar Hero World Tour" and by such luminaries as Kobe Bryant, John Mayer and Tre Cool.
The twenty-nine-year-old continues to release original music and race toward a future filled with possibility.
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